How to Draw a Truck

Step 1: Nose, cab and bed

Start low left. Go up round a stubby nose, over a tall cab, along a flat bed. Stop low right.

Tip The cab is the truck's head: tall and round, twice the hood's height.

Step 2: Belly, arches and tyres

From where you stopped, draw 2 arches with a flat belly between, to the nose. Tuck a tyre into each.

Tip Each tyre starts and stops at the ends of its arch. Add a hub circle with a dot.

Step 3: Big headlight eye

On the hood draw a round headlight eye, about half as big as a tyre. Add a pupil and shine.

Tip Keep air all round the eye: it never touches the hood or the nose.

Step 4: Smile, cheek and bumper

Under the eye, draw a short U smile. Add an oval cheek beside it and a bumper on the nose.

Step 5: Windows and pillar

Start above the hood. Draw a big window inside the cab, back to the start. Add a pillar down it.

Tip Keep a strip of cab between the window and the outline all round.

Step 6: Cab back and handle

Start where the bed meets the cab. Draw a line down, stopping on the back arch. Add a pill handle.

Tip Now the cab and the bed are 2 separate boxes, like a real pickup.

Step 7: A load of rocks

On the bed draw a big round rock. Add 2 smaller rocks peeking out behind it, one on each side.

Step 8: Stubby pipe

Low on the tailgate, draw a short rounded pipe sticking out the back.

Step 9: The road

Start under the bumper. Draw a straight road line under both tyres, and stop past the pipe.

Tip The road just touches the bottoms of the tyres.

Step 10: Sky windows, yellow light

Colour the windows sky blue, leaving a white shine. Colour the headlight yellow around the pupil.

Step 11: Grey bits

Colour the bumper, handle, pipe, rocks and hubs grey.

Step 12: Colour the truck blue

Colour the cheek pink. Colour the truck blue, around the windows, headlight, cheek and handle.

Step 13: Black tyres

Go over your lines. Colour the tyres black around the grey hubs.