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Great Dane Silhouettes: 20 Designs with Natural and Upright Ears
Twenty Great Dane silhouettes built around the breed's height and long lines, with four poses drawn twice so you can pick natural folded ears or tall upright ones. The set adds a full-stride run, a sphinx rest, a pup next to an adult and a dog standing beside a person, each as a solid shape and a matching outline.
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These Great Dane silhouettes keep the outline simple and let the breed’s shape carry the design: a deep chest, a long arched neck, a square muzzle and legs that go on and on. Most of the solid dogs are plain dark shapes with only a few thin lines to separate a back leg or mark an ear.
Natural ears or upright ears
Four of the poses come in two separate drawings, one with soft folded ears and one with tall pointed ears standing straight up. You get a standing dog (01 and 02), a sitting dog (03 and 04), a head in profile (10 and 11) and a head facing front (12 and 13) both ways. The two front heads are the most detailed designs in the set, with the eyes, brows and the loose skin around the muzzle picked out as fine lines.
The other poses all have natural ears: a relaxed recline with the head up, a sphinx rest with the front legs straight ahead, a full running stride with all four legs off the ground, a trot and a walk.
Puppies, a person and a few extras
Designs 14 and 15 are listed as a standing and a sitting puppy. On their own canvas they read as lanky young dogs with heavy paws rather than small pups. If you want a clear size difference, design 16 places a small seated pup next to a standing adult.
Design 17 sets a standing Dane beside a man seen in profile. The last three are a plain paw print, a small standing Dane inside a heart outline, and a standing Dane with a bone at its feet.
Solid shape or ribbon outline
The outline version traces the edge of each solid shape as one narrow closed ribbon, so it looks like a thin drawn line around the dog. There are no paper bridges in it. CUTTING-NOTES.txt says people, puppies, paw pads, the heart frame and the bone are separate pieces on purpose, and suggests making a plain-paper sample first. Long legs, tails and ear tips need enough width for your material. The notes say the files were only checked digitally, so how they cut is yours to test.
In the files, the art fills up to about 8.6 inches of the 10-inch square SVG and DXF canvas, and the 3000 px PNGs match that 10 inches at 300 dpi. The one-per-page PDFs print each dog about 6.3 inches on its longest side on US Letter. The four-per-page sheets repeat one design four times.
Questions
- Do the outline versions stay in one piece when cut from paper?
- Not on their own. Each outline is a narrow closed ribbon with no bridges, so the middle of the dog comes loose. CUTTING-NOTES.txt suggests adding bridges yourself for a one-piece paper stencil.
- Is the person in design 17 drawn to scale with the dog?
- No. START-HERE.txt says the human figure is decorative and not a size chart, so don't use it to judge how tall a real Great Dane stands.
