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Whale Outlines and Silhouettes: 20 Humpbacks, Belugas, Narwhals and Whale Tails
Twenty black-and-white whales, from a breaching humpback and a tusked narwhal to a rising tail over the waves, a mother with her calf and a stylized skeleton. Every design comes as a solid silhouette with white details carved into it and as a thin-line outline of the same drawing.
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Twenty whales drawn in black and white make up this collection, and each one is supplied twice: once as a solid silhouette and once as an outline. They’re shapes for cutting, stenciling and printing in one color, not colored illustrations.
Eight species in side view
The first eight designs are portraits of real whales, drawn side-on. There’s a humpback breaching upward with both long flippers spread, a second humpback cruising flat, a slim blue whale, a square-headed sperm whale, an orca, a beluga with its rounded forehead, a narwhal with its spiraled tusk and a spotted back, and a right whale with the rough patches on its head. Design 20 adds a round-bodied bowhead to the species line-up.
Tails, a family and a few playful ones
The middle of the set leaves the side-view format behind:
- Two tails. Design 09 is a symmetric fluke rising out of two wavy lines. Design 10 is a tail tipping down into a splash.
- Whales together. A humpback mother swims above her calf (11), and a pod of one large and two smaller whales (18) swims on a slant.
- Cartoon whales. Design 12 is a round, smiling whale with a three-drop spout. Design 13 rises upright through a curl of water, spout first.
- Line and pattern pieces. Designs 14 and 15 are humpbacks drawn in one thin, flowing contour, the second angled steeply upward. Design 16 breaks a humpback into triangular facets, and 17 has one leaping over curling waves.
- A skeleton. Design 19 keeps the head and tail solid and opens the middle of the body to show ribs and spine.
What changes between solid and outline
The solid files aren’t flat blobs. Throat grooves, flipper edges, eyes and spots stay in as white gaps cut into the black, so the breaching humpback still reads as a humpback when it’s filled in. The outline files trace those same edges as narrow black lines with nothing inside, for a lighter, more open look. Designs 14 and 15 are line art in both versions, with only the line weight changing.
Sizes and cutting
On US Letter, the full-page PDFs print each whale about 6.3 inches along its longer side, the four-up sheets about 3.1 inches and the six-up sheets about 2.6 inches. Each PDF page has a small header with the design number and name, so use the PNG or SVG when you want the whale alone. The SVG and DXF files open on a 10 x 10 inch canvas where the artwork reaches about 8.6 inches at its longest, and the PNGs cover that same 10 inches at 300 dpi.
According to the cutting notes, the paths were only checked in software, and no particular machine or material result is promised. Some white details aren’t connected for a one-piece paper stencil, so you may need to add bridges or weed out small pieces. Print a plain-paper sample at your size first, and have an adult help children who use cutting tools.
Questions
- Is the whale skeleton accurate enough for a science lesson?
- No. The cutting notes describe design 19 as a stylized, decorative skeleton whose small bones were thickened and joined so the shape holds together. Treat it as artwork, not an anatomy chart.
- Will the mother-and-calf and pod designs cut as one piece?
- No. Design 11 has two whales and design 18 has three, and they are separate shapes on purpose. Place them on your material as a group, or add a connector of your own if you want one joined piece.
