: Illustrator: how to create a pattern brush I am attempting to make a simple pattern brush with five b&w rectangles, with no success. Each time I drag the artwork to the brush swatch and

@Annie732

Make 3 circle small medium and bigger and select 3 circle and click on new brush > New brush pattern brush click ok
Make a circle remove the color and click on the stroke new brush created

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@Cugini998

I don't know what you did wrong the last time but I can assure you, white artwork or multi-color artwork has nothing to do with it...You can have whatever/as many colors as you like.

You should give it one more try.

Look here :




Part of the old answer:


You should also try using Options -> Expand [or Expand Appearance]. This will help if you have any unsupported attributes.

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