Well, I had the perfect cutout, but when I applied the black to white gradient, the cutout got that white/gray outline to it, which makes it ugly, in my opinion. Maybe if I put a shadow around it...
I was actually going for the designs you see when most of the picture is in black and white and only a couple parts of it are in color, but that doesn't work too well with the Yanks since their main colors are white, black, and gray, so I just ended up coloring his arms and face.