Pig Outlines: 20 Farm Designs with Piglets, Show Hogs, a Piggy Bank and a Pork Cuts Chart

Each pig in this set comes two ways, and the two versions differ more than a filled shape and its edge. Most of the line drawings have faces: a dot of an eye, a little smile, folds in the ears and creases at the legs. The solid versions are mostly plain black shapes that keep the outline and little else. There are 20 designs, most of them farm pigs plus a handful of pig motifs.

On the farm

Design 01 is a farm pig standing side-on, and 02 a piglet sitting and facing you with its ears up. Little Trot (03) walks along, and 07 runs with all four legs stretched out. In 08 a sow leads two small piglets in a row. Two show pigs stand squared up for judging, one with upright ears (09) and one with ears flopped forward (10). Elsewhere a pig lies in a mud puddle (11), stands above a row of five flowers (12), lies down asleep (18), or turns up as a round pig (14) and a potbelly pig (17). The wild boar (16) is the odd one out, with a bristly ridge down its back.

Faces, tails and tracks

Four designs leave the whole pig behind. There’s a front-on face with eyes and a snout (04), the snout on its own with two nostrils (05) and a rear view with the tail curled in a spiral (06). Design 19 is two pairs of cloven hoofprints, each with the two small dewclaw marks behind it.

A piggy bank, a geometric pig and a pork chart

The piggy bank (13) has a coin floating above its slot. The geometric pig (15) is broken into triangular facets. The pork cuts chart (20) divides a side-on pig into four labeled areas, SHOULDER, LOIN, BELLY and HAM, and it’s the only design with words on it.

Line or solid, and what cuts cleanly

The line drawings are filled contour paths, not single center strokes, so they behave as thin closed shapes in your software. The solid silhouettes are simplified, and a few keep white cutouts. If you’re cutting a stencil, the guide warns that isolated eyes, flowers, labels and other inner pieces can need bridges or a different transfer method, and that closed shapes alone don’t guarantee a usable cut. Most of the side-on pigs also have the tail drawn as a small closed loop, which leaves a tiny hole to deal with. Print a paper test at your size first. The artwork comes unmirrored, so flip it only if your transfer method needs that.

Pages for printing and tracing

Each 62-page PDF starts with the 20 line drawings one per page, up to about 6.3 inches across on US Letter. Five four-up and four six-up pages follow with different pigs on 3-inch and 2.25-inch artboards, and the last six-up page holds only 19 and 20. The same 29 pages repeat in solid, and four tracing templates close the file. The four-up and six-up pages carry a 1-inch bar to check that you printed at Actual Size. The guide suggests black ink for tracing, or coloring in the line printouts.

Inside the 8-inch square artboard that the SVG and DXF files share, with the DXF set in inches, the pigs measure about 4.2 to 6.8 inches wide. Each 2400-pixel PNG covers the same 8 inches at 300 dpi.

Questions

Which pigs keep any detail in the solid version?

Only a few. The front face (04) keeps its eyes and snout, the snout (05) its nostrils, the rear view (06) its curly tail, the piggy bank (13) its coin slot, the geometric pig (15) its facet lines and the pork chart (20) its dividing lines and labels, all as white cutouts. The rest are plain black shapes.

What is on the four tracing pages?

They close each artwork PDF. Three are enlarged line drawings of the farm pig (01), the sitting piglet (02) and the running pig (07), and the last is the sleeping pig (18) drawn as a dotted line to trace over.