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Summary: Make a cartoon truck drawing using basic shapes and some added detail; learn tips, ticks and more for creating realistic cartoon drawings in this free online art lesson about cartoons taught by expert Matt Moskal.
Matt Moskal is a free-lance artist with a BA in Elementary / Special Education. He has taught Kindergarten through 6th grade in the Philadelphia School District since 2003, using his...read more
"How to draw a cartoon bus and a cartoon truck. Bus is the easiest of all for the vehicles I think. Its basically just a big rectangle with rounded corners. The bottom corners can kind of be less rounded. And don't forget the wheel wells. Everytime you draw a vehicle don't forget those wheel wells. Now make this front window kind of look like that. And play around with those side windows as many as you like. You can give it a little detail here, add the fender. So it doesn't look compleltely like a box with circles. And you can give it a headlight, but basically there is your cartoon bus. Now a truck is almost as easy, like an eighteen wheeler. We have kind of a strange shape like a square with the corner cut off for the front. The front window, the side window, the cab. And then you just have a great big rectangle for the back. Connect them. Give yourself a front wheel. And give yourself two wheels for the back part. And remember exactly what I told you, don't forget the wheel wells, and that's exactly what I did. But that's ok. And the rest is just detail. You want to throw some detail in there, draw the door, headlight. But there is your truck and your bus."