Free Owl Mandala SVG

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I have been doing a ton of SVG tutorials. By now, I almost covered everything from inanimate beings to animals. This time, I will not stray away and I’ll be making an owl SVG. Note, however, that this is not just an owl SVG, but an Owl Mandala SVG.

An Owl Mandala SVG is a little bit detailed in design and a fancy design for your crafts. I wanted to make this a little bit special because owls are a fascinating type of bird. They are creepy, but at the same time adorable. I said creepy because they can turn their heads 270 degrees! But a fun fact about them, a group of owls is known as a parliament. Fancy? I know!

Creating a basic owl SVG would be easy, however, that’s not what I am going to do. I am going to incorporate the mandala! So, for those of you who don’t know what is a Mandala, it is an art where there is the geometric configuration of symbols. A mandala art represents or symbolizes something such as a dream, or is used in various practices such as meditation.

I decided to choose owl to incorporate in a mandala because owl for years has been used as a symbol too. The most common use for the owl as a symbol is to represent knowledge or wisdom. That’s why I thought it would be great to mix these two amazing things into one. So, prepare your tools and materials, and let us start crafting!

Interested in related designs? Check out my free Monogram Mandala SVG templates.

How to turn any image into an SVG template?

Interested in learning the easiest way to make your own SVG?

Here’s a quick tutorial on how to turn any image into an SVG format image without having to use any complicated graphics editing software.

First, a quick primer on what is an SVG… SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics. It is a way to store digital information about an image. Most images you see on the web and other digital devices use a bitmap or pixel-based image storage format. In other words, the image is captured with information about each dot in the image.

SVG format images are part of a category of images that are vector-based. Vector-based images store the image as a series of paths and nodes. Most cutting machines like the Cricut and Silhouette use SVG format images because the blade on the machine needs to know what direction (or path) to cut.

To turn a bitmap-based image into a vector-based image, you need special conversion software tools. This is an algorithm tricky conversion because there are lots of different ways to do it with varying degrees in quality. Most graphic editing software like Adobe Illustration make you manually decide on those conversion settings which makes it really difficult to use if you’re not already familiar with Illustrator.

I use a software tool called Vector Magic. With Vector Magic, you just upload your image (you can even copy and paste it in) and it automatically just converts to an SVG format for you. You can make editorial adjustments afterward if you’d like but there is a baseline conversion ready to go if that’s good enough.

Here’s an image for you to give it a try yourself. It’s a bunch of cute animal drawings I did the other day. I just took a picture of it with my phone. Try copy and paste this image into the Vector Magic interface. (Right-click on the image below, select “copy”, then head over to Vector Magic and past it into the window or just hit Ctrl+V)

After you pasted your image into the Vector Magic window, it will automatically start to convert your image:

This will take a few seconds. When the process is complete, you will see the vectorized SVG image on the right with the original on the left.

If you don’t like the automated conversion, there are a number of different adjustments you can make from the right tool panel.

After making adjustments, you can download your converted image as an SVG and then upload it to your cutting machine interface like Cricut Design Space below: