: Add a line to a shape, and color the new space I am trying to take a shape like this, And add a line to it like this, I want to be able to shade the bottom section that gets created

@Holmes874

Here's a cartoon:




An ellipse and a closed shape for the rest of the cylinder were drawn. The ellipse is rotated a little. The other shape is drawed with the pen tool. Something like a perspective has been at least tried.
The shapes have got solid fill colors
One line was drawn with the pen tool
The paint bucket was used to fill the closed are with a darker color. The paint bucket creates a new closed shape which can get a stroke automatically, if there was recently drawed something with a stroke. In this case the generated stroke was removed by taking its color off.


Open shapes can be the limits of the paint bucket fill. It works ok, if there is gapless area to fill. This probably was, what you wanted.


Not asked, but try also gradient fills. Here a linear 3 stop gradient was drawed between the long edges. Gradients are very plausible shadings for simple curved forms like this. The gradient stop colors (=light red, nearly white and dark red) are as easy to set as single fill colors.

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@Hamaas979

I assume the shapes are closed shapes as in 1, and 2 shown below.


With the Pen Tool, draw a closed shape over part 2 where you want to cut it.
Select both parts 2 and 3. Click Path > Division
Select the new shape created, and fill it with the colour you want.

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