Yorkie Silhouettes: 10 Yorkshire Terrier Designs with Topknot Bow and Memorial Wings

A Yorkie’s outline is mostly coat. These ten Yorkshire Terrier designs make the most of it: pricked ears on a small head, a beard falling from the muzzle, and in the portraits a long, parted coat that hangs to the bottom of the frame. It’s a short set, ten designs rather than twenty, and two of them have a clear purpose of their own: the bow portrait and the memorial piece.

The ten Yorkies

Three are the classic poses, a standing Yorkie with its tail up (01), a sitting one (02) and one resting on its belly with the head raised (08). Design 03 runs with one front leg stretched out ahead, and 06 is a sitting puppy with a short, fuzzy coat. The side portrait (04) and the front portrait (05) show the coat at full length. In 07 the front portrait gets a bow tied in the topknot, and 09 sets a long-coated sitting Yorkie beside a paw print.

The memorial design

Design 10 is a sitting Yorkie with a pair of angel wings, above the words In Loving Memory in a serif typeface. The words are fixed. They were set in DM Serif Display and turned into vector shapes, so nothing needs a font installed, but you can’t retype them, and there’s no line for a name or a date. In the solid version the wings mostly merge into the dog’s shape, while the outline shows both wings feather by feather. The lettering stays solid in both, so it’s easy to read.

Two kinds of outline

The outline folder isn’t uniform, and it helps to know which is which before you pick a file.

• Fine sketch lines: the standing Yorkie (01), the sitting Yorkie (02) and the memorial Yorkie (10) are detailed pen-style drawings, every strand of the coat drawn as a thin stroke. Each is built from hundreds of short strokes thinner than the 1 mm the guide aims for, so treat these three as drawings to print or trace rather than shapes to cut.
• Bold contour bands: the other seven are drawn with a thick line, either just around the edge (running, puppy, resting) or with strong fur strokes inside (both portraits, the bow and the paw design).

The solid versions are filled shapes. The full-body poses are one plain silhouette, and the portraits and the paw design keep white openings for the face and the strands of hair.

The stencil masks

The stencil folder adds ten negative masks, one for each design. Each is a black panel about 7.8 x 6.2 inches in the DXF files. You keep the black and remove the white Yorkie shape. Small bridges hold the inner islands in place, including the center of the o in Loving, so the painted result has a few deliberate gaps. The masks were checked digitally to stay one connected panel, but nothing has been test-cut, so try one on scrap first. The guide aims for bridges and outline bands of about 1 mm (0.04 in) at a 6-inch design width and asks for a fresh check if you go smaller, especially on the faces and the lettering.

The two PDFs

Both PDFs share one page map. Page 1 is a cover, pages 2 to 11 have the ten solid designs one per page, pages 12 to 21 the outlines, then pages 22 to 31 and 32 to 41 repeat each solid and each outline design four times on a page. Print at Actual Size / 100% and test one page first.

Questions

Can I change the words on the memorial design?

No. In Loving Memory is fixed lettering already turned into vector shapes, so there's no text to edit and no name or date line. You can add your own text next to it in your design software.

Are the stencil masks in the PDFs?

No. The ten stencil masks come only as SVG, PNG and DXF files in the stencil folders. The PDFs hold the solid and outline versions.