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German Shepherd Silhouettes: 20 Adults, Puppies and Working-Dog Designs
Twenty German Shepherds with tall pointed ears and long bushy tails, from a dog following a scent with its nose down to an adult sitting beside its puppy. Each design comes as a plain black silhouette and as a hollow outline that keeps the ear, muzzle and coat markings.
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Big upright ears, a long wedge-shaped muzzle and a low, bushy tail: those three things make a German Shepherd recognizable even when the dog is filled in solid black, and all 20 designs here are built on them. Each of the 20 designs comes two ways: a plain silhouette and a hollow outline with the coat markings drawn in.
Adults at work and at rest
The adult poses cover how a shepherd moves. There’s the alert side-on stance (01), a relaxed sit (02) and the sphinx rest, lying flat with the front legs out and the head up (03). Four show it moving: a balanced trot (04), a long running stride (05), a leap with the front legs tucked (06) and a dog following a scent trail with its nose to the ground (07). Design 08 is a play bow with the tongue out, and 09 a morning stretch with the back legs pushed out behind. The long-coat sit (13) has a fuller ruff and a heavier tail than the rest.
The three portraits show the head side-on (10), straight from the front (11) and turned three-quarters (12).
Puppies and companion designs
Three puppies have the same tall ears on a rounder, smaller body: one sitting and facing you (14), one standing (15) and one lying down (16). Design 17 is a high five, the dog sitting up with one front paw pressed against a human hand. In 18 the dog wears a plain harness with a top handle, a buckle and a blank side patch, with no badge or wording on it. Design 19 pairs a shepherd head with a paw print, and 20 seats an adult next to a puppy.
Two styles that differ more than usual
The solid files are filled outer shapes and nothing else: no lines inside the dog at all. That gives the cleanest shape in the set, but some details vanish into it. On 18 the harness shrinks to a small bump where its handle sits on the back, so use the outline if you want the straps and patch to show.
The outline files keep a thick contour around the dog and add ear, muzzle and coat details from the same drawing. They aren’t a connected stencil. Some details are separate pieces, and the paw print in 19 sits apart from the head, and fine ear tips, toes and coat lines may need a bigger size. The files haven’t been through a physical cut test, so try one at your planned size first.
Choosing a PDF
Instead of one long PDF, you get 12 short ones, each with 20 pages in the same design order. Choose US Letter or A4, solid or outline, then the layout. Full page gives one large dog. The 4-up and 6-up files repeat the same dog four or six times on a page, handy when you want several copies of one pose. Print at 100% on matching paper in portrait orientation.
For your own layouts, the SVG, DXF and PNG files all use an 8 x 6 inch canvas, with the dog smaller than the canvas. The largest designs come in at about 6.8 inches wide in the DXF files. Keep the proportions locked when you resize.
Questions
- Do the 4-up and 6-up PDFs mix different dogs on one page?
- No. Each page repeats a single design four or six times, and page 1 to page 20 run in the same design order in every PDF. Pick the page number of the dog you want and print it at 100%.
- Is the outline a connected stencil?
- No. The outline files are a hollow outer contour plus some ear, muzzle and coat details, and a few of those details and parts of the companion motifs are separate pieces. If you want one simple shape to cut, use the solid version.
