: Why do the ending anchor points appear disconnected after I apply a brush to a single stroke in Illustrator? I would like to know a solution or workaround to avoid having the stroke appear

@Shelton719

You cannot avoid this, if you apply a brush which has non-fitting ends. Artistic brushes with fine tapered or hairy ends usually are hopeless cases.

Workarounds:


add a normal stroke as the second stroke in the appearance panel
initially draw an open path or split your closed path to open path with knife or scissors, move the ends and edit the handles for good looks
draw something to cover the gap
edit the brush shape (a complex job) to make the ends to fit, use the modified version only for closed paths


Here's an example. In the left an artistic brush is applied. In the right the path is the same, but the stroke is ordinary:

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