Curvy zig zag stroke

[Summayah5FC7]

I'd like to make the width of the stroke larger at at peak and trough of the wavy zig zag stroke.

When i choose a profile of the stroke. It just changes the width on one side.

Please see attached. Image one is uniform stroke. and the other is with a stroke profile applied.

[Mohammad.Harb]

You can use the width tool ( shift + w ) . You can also double click on any point you created with the wodth tool to specify yhe side you want to change.

[Summayah5FC7]

I just want the areas of the line that i have highlighted in yellow to be a bit wider.

[Kurt Gold]

The Width tool and width profiles are very useful, without any doubt.

But in this case you may consider to convert the stroked object to a filled compound path (Object menu > Path > Outline Stroke) and edit (probably some added) individual anchor points to get the desired appearance.

[kphotopage · Accepted solution]

Summayah, Hi

Here I created a pattern brush and applied it to a circle.

The pattern brush was created with stroke using a custom variable width.

K

[Summayah5FC7]

Interesting. Thank you.

[Summayah5FC7]

If i add a fill to it, it doesn't fill the circle.

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

You need to apply the same effects to the fill in the Appearance panel.