Animals

Animal woodcuts, linocuts and engravings, cut out of their paper. Each comes in black and the three illustration inks, as a traced SVG and a transparent 1000px PNG; the snake and the butterflies also in their original colours, PNG only.

Use for
A creature to carry a story: social posts, podcast and magazine pages, section openers.
Colour
Black or one of the three illustration inks; a few also in their original colours. Never retint them in other colours.
Grounds
White, Paper, Sunlight
Registers
Conversation, Gathering
Formats
SVG and PNG
Rights
Not cleared. Traced or cut from mood board images whose rights are not cleared: fine for mockups and drafts; redraw, re-source or clear before anything goes public.
Fox sitting, black

linocut · Mood board 01

Fox sitting

A fox sitting upright and looking up, solid black with the chest, ear and tail tip left uncut.

Black #1b1916PNG 60 KB · SVG 13 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 60 KB · SVG 13 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 60 KB · SVG 13 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 60 KB · SVG 13 KB
Two foxes walking, black

engraving, watermarked stock (draft) · Mood board 02

Two foxes walking

Two foxes trotting one after the other in fine broken line.

Draft: redraw or re-source before public use

Black #1b1916PNG 32 KB · SVG 24 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 32 KB · SVG 24 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 32 KB · SVG 24 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 32 KB · SVG 24 KB
Swan, wings open, black

linocut · Mood board 03

Swan, wings open

A swan with an S-curved neck and wings spread, white cut feather lines.

Black #1b1916PNG 32 KB · SVG 17 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 32 KB · SVG 17 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 32 KB · SVG 17 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 32 KB · SVG 17 KB
Bird with a flowering stem, black

linocut · Mood board 04

Bird with a flowering stem

A blackbird diving with a long looping stem of bell flowers in its beak.

Black #1b1916PNG 43 KB · SVG 41 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 43 KB · SVG 41 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 43 KB · SVG 41 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 43 KB · SVG 41 KB
Snail, black

wood engraving · Mood board 05

Snail

A snail reaching out with its horns, the shell in fine engraved spirals and the body stippled.

Black #1b1916PNG 139 KB · SVG 60 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 139 KB · SVG 60 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 139 KB · SVG 60 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 139 KB · SVG 60 KB
Barn owl, framed, black

woodcut · Mood board 06

Barn owl, framed

A barn owl standing face-on on a rock, inside its double frame with the H·R monogram.

Black #1b1916PNG 200 KB · SVG 137 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 200 KB · SVG 137 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 200 KB · SVG 137 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 200 KB · SVG 137 KB
Barn owl, black

woodcut · Mood board 06

Barn owl

The same owl on its own, frame and monogram removed.

Black #1b1916PNG 183 KB · SVG 110 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 183 KB · SVG 110 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 183 KB · SVG 110 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 183 KB · SVG 110 KB
Barn owl in flight, black

rubber stamp · Mood board 07

Barn owl in flight

A barn owl seen from above, wings swept wide, in fine line with dotted feathers.

Black #1b1916PNG 114 KB · SVG 128 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 114 KB · SVG 128 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 114 KB · SVG 128 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 114 KB · SVG 128 KB
Bear standing, black

woodcut · Mood board 08

Bear standing

A bear up on its hind legs, looking up, with wood grain streaking through the fur.

Black #1b1916PNG 96 KB · SVG 48 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 96 KB · SVG 48 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 96 KB · SVG 48 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 96 KB · SVG 48 KB
Wild boar, black

linocut · Mood board 09

Wild boar

A wild boar trotting, its bristly coat in rows of short white cuts.

Black #1b1916PNG 76 KB · SVG 96 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 76 KB · SVG 96 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 76 KB · SVG 96 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 76 KB · SVG 96 KB
Swallow in flight, black

linocut · Mood board 10

Swallow in flight

A swallow swooping, wings wide and tail forked. Bird only.

Black #1b1916PNG 69 KB · SVG 94 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 69 KB · SVG 94 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 69 KB · SVG 94 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 69 KB · SVG 94 KB
Swallow in flight, with gouges, black

linocut · Mood board 10

Swallow in flight, with gouges

The same swallow, keeping the gouge marks that fly out around it.

Black #1b1916PNG 72 KB · SVG 77 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 72 KB · SVG 77 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 72 KB · SVG 77 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 72 KB · SVG 77 KB
Hedgehog asleep, black

linocut · Mood board 11

Hedgehog asleep

A hedgehog curled into an oval, asleep, with fine white spines sweeping round its body.

Black #1b1916PNG 230 KB · SVG 146 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 230 KB · SVG 146 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 230 KB · SVG 146 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 230 KB · SVG 146 KB
Coiled snake, black

natural history watercolour · Mood board 12

Coiled snake

A snake rising from a double coil, its scales in dark green over a pale belly. From a watercolour, so the ink versions print in two tones: solid scales over a light tint of the same ink.

Black #1b1916PNG 384 KB · SVG 216 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 382 KB · SVG 216 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 382 KB · SVG 216 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 384 KB · SVG 216 KB
Original colours watercolourPNG 2,317 KB
Butterfly, dark with spotted hindwings, black

photographic plate · Mood board 13

Butterfly, dark with spotted hindwings

A dark birdwing-like butterfly, veined forewings over pale hindwings ringed with black spots. Printed in three tones of each ink.

Black #1b1916PNG 101 KB · SVG 54 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 101 KB · SVG 54 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 101 KB · SVG 54 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 101 KB · SVG 54 KB
Original greys photographPNG 682 KB
Butterfly, striped swallowtail, black

photographic plate · Mood board 13

Butterfly, striped swallowtail

A pale swallowtail with bold black stripes across the forewings and tailed hindwings. Printed in three tones of each ink.

Black #1b1916PNG 117 KB · SVG 60 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 117 KB · SVG 60 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 116 KB · SVG 60 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 116 KB · SVG 60 KB
Original greys photographPNG 648 KB
Butterfly, pale with one tail, black

photographic plate · Mood board 13

Butterfly, pale with one tail

A pale butterfly with dark wingtips, one long tail on the lower left wing. Printed in three tones of each ink.

Black #1b1916PNG 115 KB · SVG 52 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 115 KB · SVG 52 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 114 KB · SVG 52 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 114 KB · SVG 52 KB
Original greys photographPNG 706 KB
Butterfly, pale with dark edges, black

photographic plate · Mood board 13

Butterfly, pale with dark edges

Pale wings with dark veins and heavy black borders around the hindwings. Printed in three tones of each ink.

Black #1b1916PNG 117 KB · SVG 49 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 117 KB · SVG 49 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 117 KB · SVG 49 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 117 KB · SVG 49 KB
Original greys photographPNG 731 KB
Butterfly, banded, black

photographic plate · Mood board 13

Butterfly, banded

Broad dark bands across pale wings, with spotted hindwings. Printed in three tones of each ink.

Black #1b1916PNG 101 KB · SVG 57 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 101 KB · SVG 57 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 101 KB · SVG 57 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 101 KB · SVG 57 KB
Original greys photographPNG 565 KB
Butterfly, spotted, black

photographic plate · Mood board 13

Butterfly, spotted

Pale wings scattered with round black spots and a beaded black border. Lettering across the source removed. Printed in three tones of each ink.

Black #1b1916PNG 120 KB · SVG 68 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 119 KB · SVG 68 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 120 KB · SVG 68 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 120 KB · SVG 68 KB
Original greys photographPNG 644 KB
Loon, black

linocut · Mood board 14

Loon

A loon on the water, its back a grid of small white cuts, with curved ripples beneath.

Black #1b1916PNG 47 KB · SVG 34 KB
Blue #03296fPNG 47 KB · SVG 34 KB
Deep green #1f3d2bPNG 47 KB · SVG 34 KB
Mustard #c9a227PNG 47 KB · SVG 34 KB

Files: system/graphics/animals/, with a README on sources and how they were made. Rules for every set: graphics.

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