Random Shapes appearing in Drop Shadow

[BearAndSon_Art]

Sometimes when I add a drop shadow in illustrator, I get these weird shapes in the shadow and I cannot for the life of me figure out why its doing it. I attached 2 images, one of the object without the shadow and one with. There's also another object on this document thats giving me 2 stright line way offset from the object itself. I'm sure it's a stupid mistake I'm overlooking but can anyone help???

[Simmer1]

Hi,

Can you send a screenshot including your Layers Palette and Appearance Palette?

Thanks,

Sim

[BearAndSon_Art]

Thanks for the reply! Here are the sceenshots. Let me know if I can provide anything else. This is driving me nuts.

[Simmer1]

It seems the Drop shadow is referencing some of the underlying shapes.

Try locking thoses

[BearAndSon_Art]

The layers you were looking at on the layers panel was not the object I'm struggling with. Here's 2 more screenshots showing the object I was asking about with the layer in the panel selected and another object thats giving me the straight lines with the layer panel visible.

[Ton Frederiks]

Can you check your file in Photoshop to make sure that the area of the weird shape is fully transparent (use the eraser)?

[BearAndSon_Art]

I checked PS many many times to make sure there wasn't some little flaw in the image with no luck. This happens to me (at work) all the time but I have no idea what the culprit could be.

[Ton Frederiks]

Can you share that image with the strange blob in the dropshadow?