Bucking Horse Silhouettes: 20 Western Designs with Bronc Riders, Lariats and Desert Scenes

Horses that won’t stand still fill this bucking horse silhouette collection. In 20 designs they kick, twist, rear and gallop, sometimes with a cowboy holding on, and the western extras are a horseshoe, two lariats, a cowboy hat, cactus, stars and a desert sun. Every design is in the download twice, once as a solid black silhouette and once as an outline.

Bucks, rears and gallops

The first eight are the horse on its own. Design 01 drops its head and throws its hind legs high, 02 kicks out with both hind feet, and 03 twists its body in mid-air. In 04 the horse stretches out in a flying leap, 05 lands on its front feet, and 06 rears straight up on its hind legs. Two plain gallops follow, one long and open (07) and one more bunched up (08). Manes and tails fly in every one, drawn as long flame-like locks.

Four bronc riders

Designs 09, 10 and 11 put a cowboy on a bucking bronc, and you can see the hat, the chaps, one hand on the rein and the other arm flung up for balance. The three differ in how the horse moves: head low, hind end high, or lunging forward. Design 16 places a fourth rider over a strip of flat-topped mesas, with a small sun in the sky.

Horseshoe, rope, hat and desert

The rest frame the horse with something western. A horse bucks inside a horseshoe with its nail holes in 12, inside a round rope loop with a knot and a hanging tail in 13, and inside a long oval lariat in 19. In 14 a cowboy hat floats above a galloping horse. Design 15 sets a rearing horse in front of a big sun ring streaked with cloud lines, between two saguaro cactus. Design 17 has the horse leaping between clumps of tall grass and small flowers, 18 adds three four-pointed stars and a curved swoosh below the hooves, and 20 gallops past a large sun with rocks and a single cactus.

How the two versions differ

In the solid version the horse is black with pale swirls cut into it to show muscle, so it still has shape at a distance. The outline turns those same swirls into open shapes. That makes it a busy, ornamental drawing rather than a simple edge, and small bridges join nearby parts where they’d otherwise float free. Fine bits need care: the tips of the manes, rein loops, the twists in the rope frames and the small plants. START-HERE.txt says no physical printing or cutting has been tested and that a 3 inch preview on screen is not a proven cutting size, so start with a small test in your own material.

On the 10 x 7 inch canvas the widest designs span about 9.3 inches, and the rearing horse about 6. In the PDFs a full-page horse prints about 7 inches wide on US Letter. Print at 100%, since fit-to-page changes the size.

Questions

Is there a four-up or six-up page for every design?

No. Each style has one four-up sheet of design 01 and one six-up sheet of design 07. The other 18 designs print one to a page. For multiples of those, place the SVG or PNG several times in your own software.

Are the rope, stars and scenery joined to the horse?

Not always. START-HERE.txt says nearby black parts are linked by small bridges where needed, but stars, frames and landscape pieces can stay separate. Group the whole design before you resize it so the pieces keep their places.