: Create an overlapping pattern brush that lines up evenly where the brush intersects I am very new to Illustrator (know Photoshop well) and have watched many tutorials but still don't know what

@Yeniel278

First things first

Illustrator layers palette is misnamed it is actually a layers and objects palette but that is a too long name so it been just shortened to layer palette. A in 50/50 hindsight Objects would have been a better name.

So in fact odds are that they already are on one layer unless you put them on a separate layer. Illustrator will just show every object in the scene in the layers palette (because it is actually a objects palette) no matter where it is. It is bit like if Photoshop arranged all the shapes under a collapsible item in the tree.

So no problem there, you simply don't make them one object that would defeat the point. Ignore this line of thinking. A illustrator scene will always have far more objects than any Photoshop document would that is natural and part of the benefit of using Illustrator.

I don't envy you, it is much easier to learn vector drawing first and Photoshop later as you need to unlearn a lot of things you take for granted. Looking at it form the other way around is no problem so somebody who learned illustrator first has no problems (just see them as limitation in PS).

As for your real problem

Ok, the pattern does not actually work like you expect. It is because the pattern border is taken form you expanded outline, the same your object has when you count the vector outlines.

So you have a half stroke width error in your brush. Essentially the line is measured form the center. but your next piece gets added end to end. So just move the horizontal stroke ends half a stroke width back towards left.



Image 1: A half stroke width error

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