Hey guys, I'm having a hard time figuring out the easiest way to do this. I have this vector design that's made up of black and white shapes:
Here's a colored background so you can see how it's built:
I also have black and white brush strokes on a top layer to cover up certain areas I didn't like, it's very messy. Is there an easy way to combine all shapes of the same color at once? In Illustrator I would merge everything, select all same color white, and delete. Is there a similar process in AD? My goal is to have the black areas on a transparent background as one compound shape.