How to Draw Lightning McQueen

The Lightning McQueen is an anthropomorphic stock car that is featured in the Cars animated film and its sequels. It has a curvy, sleek body and has a cute, comic face that easily attracts a child’s eyes. The drawing exercise mainly requires you to get your circles, bends and rarely, straight lines right.

Step 1: Draw a rectangle and a square-like shape to its left.

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Step 2: Outline the windscreen, roof and the windows.

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Step 3: Draw circular guides for the wheels. A curved line is drawn at the base of the upper protruded car part.

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Step 4: Detail the upper and back parts of the automobile with curved lines.

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Step 5: Give a curved shape to the frontal part of the car with the help of a couple of connected arches.

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Step 6: Give a border to the rear of the car, sketch an arch encircling the rear wheel and end it in a straight line joining it with the front wheel.

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Step 7: Detail the other front wheel that is only partially visible.

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Step 8: Draw concentric circles for the wheels.

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Step 9: Give them detailing by drawing smaller circles at their cores.

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Step 10: Shape the tiny nuts at their centers.

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Step 11: Start detailing the windscreen and the windows.

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Step 12: Draw an angular bonnet fitted with tiny round screws all along its edge. “95” is written in bold at the side of the car.

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Step 13: Shape the angular headlights and the zig-zag detailing on the hood of the car.

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Step 14: Make the lightning-like shape at the sides of the stock car too.

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Step 15: Draw the eyes and the crescent smile surrounded by smaller curves.

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Step 16: Darken the wheels highlighting the word, Lightyear, at the top and bottom part of the front tire.

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The kids can now color it in its characteristic red, yellow and orange shades. Since there are a considerable number of steps involved, children might need to make a few attempts before getting the drawing perfect.