How do i fix the spikes at the end of my brush stroke?

[edotahh]

Hi everyone!

This may be an obvious question but i just have no idea where i'm going wrong (still a beginner in illustrator). No matter what brush i'm using, i keep getting these weird spikes at the end of my brush strokes. 

[Ton Frederiks]

Try to lower the miter limit in the strokes panel.

[edotahh]

Thanks for your reply. I have tried this but nothing changed, this is what my stroke panel currently looks like. Even when i change the cap and corner to rounded it stays the same (i dont want round corners anyways)

 

[Ton Frederiks]

What do you use for a brush?

[edotahh]

I was just using a regular round brush, just noticed there is also spikes in the text

[Ton Frederiks]

Maybe you can share an example file?

Save as (or rename to) .pdf to be able to attach it to a post.

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

Thanks, it looks like it is caused by a stroke applied to the layer.

You can clear the layer appearance from the appearance panel menu.

[edotahh]

Thankyou so much! This worked, i tried it for the text but this is still happening and when i create new brush strokes. Have i accidentally pressed something thats automatically creating the extra stroke?

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

You need to select the layer (click the filled circle next to the art layers name) and clear the appearance in the Appearance panel..

[edotahh]

Thankyou so so much for all your help!!!

[Ton Frederiks]

Good to hear that helped.