How to get this cowboy shaded correctly?

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Cowboy.lbrn2 (238.5 KB)
I can’t seem to get the black section to be filled as shown in the attached image. I have the outline for it to be cut, it’s purple in my LB file.

I am looking to do layers like this:

  1. Base layer with red mountains filled
  2. Orange trees/mountains to be cut
  3. Black will be both filled where the black is and cut where the purple is in my LB project.
  4. Blue horse’s end will be cut so it is a different layer

Is that enough to get some help I can do it in Illustrator but converting to LB was problematic.

LB-Cowboy
LB-Cowboy707×706 43.3 KB

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You need the original “Cowboy Border” shape to be in the the “Cowboy Shading” layer. I did a +0.030 offset of the original “Cowboy Border” and cleaned it up a little.

Cowboy_RU.lbrn2 (280.2 KB)

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I like what you did but I would like to know how to make the purple completely across the bottom of the page, It’s going to be a layer on it’s own and the horse’s rear is going to be above it.

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Like this?

Cowboy_RU1.lbrn2 (283.0 KB)

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Thanks, I really wish you could show me how, though. I am good at Adobe Illustrator but the terminology in LB is so different and it doesn’t have a lot of things Illustrator does.

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Here’s what this was made from. It is a screenshot from a Boot Town commercial.

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Screenshot_20251119_193119_Chrome11165×1080 86.1 KB

I took it to ChatGPT and using some prompts, got the correct outlines/shading I wanted and took it to Illustrator, cleaned it up, exported to SVG and then imported into LB.

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Node edit for making changes in lines. And in your case whatever lines you are working on or trying to connect need to be on same layer.

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Here are the prompts I used to create from the image:

  1. Make the attached image into a realistic cartoon
  2. Remove color and make into vector line art
  3. Simplify the image and thicken the outline
  4. Make it a little more detailed
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