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Horse Head Silhouettes: 20 Portraits from a Foal to a Chess Knight, with Bridged Outlines
Twenty horse heads and nothing else, half drawn as breed and tack portraits and half set into a horseshoe, wreath, roundel, heart, shield or chess piece. Each comes as a solid silhouette and as an outline with small gaps left on purpose so a paper cutout stays in one piece.
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These horse head silhouettes are heads only: no legs, no riders, no scenery. Twenty designs cover real breeds and tack in one half and decorative frames and shapes in the other. Each one comes as a solid silhouette and as an outline with deliberate gaps.
Ten portraits
Design 01 is a plain thoroughbred profile, and 02 is an Arabian with a mane that falls in long locks. The mane in 03 streams straight back in wide waves. Design 04 looks you in the eye with a broad white blaze, 05 is a foal with fuzzy ears and a short brushy mane, and 06 has a dressage bridle with button braids running down its neck. In 07 the horse wears a western bridle with a ring bit, 08 lowers its head under a big sweep of mane, 09 is a shaggy Highland pony, and 10 is a baroque stallion with a mane of tight curls.
Ten framed and stylized heads
The second half puts a head inside something. There’s a horseshoe with nail holes (11), a wreath of leaves and five-petal flowers (12), a plain round ring (13) and a shield with oak leaves (19). Design 14 is a chess knight on its stepped base, 15 breaks the head into flat geometric facets, and 16 is a minimal head drawn in a few smooth curves. A heart shapes itself around a head in 17, 18 is a round-eyed little pony, and 20 sets a horse against a setting sun cut with horizontal stripes.
Why the outline has gaps
In the solid version the head is black, with the blaze, eye, bridle straps and mane strands cut in as pale lines. The outline is hollow, and if you look closely its lines are broken by tiny gaps. Those breaks are paper bridges, so the white inside doesn’t drop out when the outline is cut from paper. No physical cut tests have been done on these files, and a check on screen is no substitute for a trial at your own size and material, so start with scrap.
Sizes in each format
The DXF files open 4 inches wide in millimeter units, so tall designs come in tall. The SVGs sit on a 1200 x 1200 canvas without a set unit, and each separate piece is its own named layer, which makes it easy to pick out the horseshoe or wreath on its own. The PNGs are 2400 pixels square. In the PDFs a full-page profile prints about 6.8 inches wide on US Letter, and the four-up and six-up sheets mix different heads on a page rather than repeating one. The last six-up sheet in each version holds only designs 19 and 20.
Questions
- Why does the outline have breaks in it?
- The gaps are paper bridges. The guide page at the end of the PDF notes that the bridged outlines keep the paper connected when you cut, so leave them in place. The solid versions have enclosed holes and suit decorative cutouts instead.
- What size do the DXF files open at?
- Every design is set to 4 inches (101.6 mm) wide, in millimeter units. Height follows the shape, so a wide head like 03 is about 2.5 inches tall and the long front-facing head in 04 is about 8.4 inches. Resize in your cutting software before you cut.
