How to draw · Confident · about 20 minutes
Fire Truck
You need: Paper, Pencil. Optional: Eraser, Ruler, Red, gray, black and blue crayons, colored pencils or markers.
Thick lines: draw these now. Thin gray: already drawn. Dashed: light guides you erase later.
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1. Draw a light ground line. Above it, draw a long light box for the whole truck: about three times as long as it is tall.
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2. Draw a light line down through the box about two thirds of the way along. The cab goes in front of this line.
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3. Draw three round wheels standing on the ground line: two close together at the back and one under the cab. Draw them first because they are in front.
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4. Draw the body: the top, the back and the bottom. Curve the bottom up over each wheel like an arch and leave a small gap around the wheel.
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5. Draw the long ladder on top: two straight lines the same distance apart, joined at both ends. Add two short posts that hold it up.
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6. Draw the tall cab with a slanted windshield. The ladder is in front of the cab's back corner, so stop the cab's lines where they reach the ladder.
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7. Draw the bumper as a small box at the front. Add a headlight, and a side window whose front edge slants the same way as the windshield.
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8. Draw the ladder's rungs: short straight lines across, all the same distance apart.
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9. Draw three doors on the body, the same size with the same gaps between them. Add a handle to each door.
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10. Draw a rim inside each wheel and a dark hub in the middle: circles inside circles, all sharing one center.
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11. Add the light bar on the roof of the cab, and a door line and a handle on the cab.
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12. Erase the guides: the long box, the cab line and the ground line.
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13. Light comes from above, so the bottom edge of the truck is in shadow. Shade it with short slanted lines between the wheels and behind them.
Practice here
Tip: A ruler helps with the long ladder lines. Hold it still with your other hand.