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Octopus Outlines and Silhouettes: 14 Solid Octopuses and 6 Line Designs with Curling Arms
Twenty octopuses whose eight arms all end in tight spiral curls, fourteen drawn as solid black silhouettes and six as fine line drawings. Each design comes in its own single style, so the line drawings are separate poses, not outlines of the solid ones.
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All eight arms on these octopuses finish in tight spiral curls, so the 20 designs are told apart by pose: how the body sits and where the arms go. Fourteen are solid black silhouettes and six are line drawings. Each design is drawn in only one of those two styles, so the line drawings are poses of their own, not outlines of the silhouettes.
Fourteen in solid black
Several of the silhouettes are side views with the arms flowing out behind the head. Flowing Voyage (01) spreads them in loose curls to the right, Reef Wanderer (06) spreads a wide, low fan of arms on both sides, and Long Drift (09) stretches all eight straight back in a long horizontal streak. Others face you. Open Embrace (04), Sheltered Curl (08) and Hanging Bloom (12) set the head at the top with the arms fanning down and out on both sides. Upward Current (05) climbs on a diagonal with its arms trailing below. High Reach (07) lifts two arms over its head, and Coiled Cove (03) is a compact heap of arms looped over one another.
The solids aren’t flat blobs. A small crescent marks the eye, and thin pale gaps separate arms where they cross, which keeps the arms readable even in the busier poses.
Six drawn in line
The line designs are thin closed outlines with the same spiral tips. Ribbon Study (15) hangs its arms down from a raised head. Quiet Voyage (16) and Ocean Arc (17) lie on their sides with the arms sweeping off to the right, and Side Current (19) is another side view with its arms trailing down to the right. Spiral Shelter (18) is the one fully front-on, symmetrical design, with two eyes and the arms curling out evenly on both sides. Classic Stencil (20) is a three-quarter view with the head held high and the arms spread wide in every direction.
Before you cut anything
The files are craft motifs, not one-piece stencils. Some of the overlap details are separate small shapes, so the notes suggest transfer material to hold them in place when you apply a decal. The line designs are filled contour bands, an outer and an inner loop around each shape, so set them as outlines in your software rather than expecting a single stroke. The notes also say nothing has been test-cut, and they single out the fine outline rings as needing care. Try your material, blade and size on a small piece first.
Canvas and page sizes
The SVG and PNG files share a 10 x 10 inch canvas, and the DXF files use the same 10-inch coordinates in inches. Each octopus spans about 7.8 to 8.3 inches across inside that square. Each PNG is a 3000-pixel square tagged at 300 dpi.
The six PDFs give you US Letter or A4 with one, four or six copies of a design per page. Every page repeats a single octopus, and all six files run in the same order. On US Letter a full-page octopus is up to about 6.2 inches wide, four to a page about 3.1 inches and six to a page about 2.6 inches.
Questions
- Does each octopus come in both a solid and a line version?
- No. Designs 01 to 14 exist only as solid silhouettes and 15 to 20 only as line drawings. That makes 20 different poses, with no matching pair across the two styles.
- Is Classic Stencil a reusable paint stencil?
- No. Design 20 is named Classic Stencil, but it's a line drawing like 15 to 19. The notes that come with the files say none of the designs are bridged, reusable paint stencils.
