Can't get rid of thick border that's attached to fill.

[NealF2]

Hi.

I've got a head drawn with the freehand tool and multi-stroke selected so that the fill and stroke will stay together.
The stroke is about 6. pixels wide. All looked great.

Today I opened the same file, changed nothing, and when I render, the stroke looks almost an inch wide. But it's not the same brush stroke and it's not a dark black like the original stroke. In fact, the original stroke is still there. it just added this dark gray border to it.

I do have shading and highlights masked to it but it was fine yesterday.
I also moved the head out of the mask folder, and still has that border when I render. And the border only shows up when I render it. it looks fine until rendering.

I just did some more searching and found out it was not a problem with the freehand line. It seems to be around the edge of the fill.
when I uncheck the fill, the fill goes away and it renders without the border. But, of course, there's no fill then.

BTW, I treated the body the exact same way and it's fine.

UPDATE: I tried using the blob tool with no auto stroke. Merge strokes and draw behind were checked. Any blob I make has the same problem. A huge border.

[Greenlaw]

Could it be a Layer or Group Settings' Outline option that got unintentionally enabled?

I sometimes use this option to fatten up my outlines independently of the Stroke size in the shapes. (Space Tommy is a good example.) If you didn’t know it was in use, you might think something was wrong with the Stroke setting.

Also, I think the effect only appears in render, not display, which sounds like what you described.

[NealF2]

Thanks for your comment.

It could be. I looked at all the options and can't see a difference. I also took the Head layer out of the masking folder and put it above all other layers and it still has that border.

I also tried using the blob tool and got the same border.

What's weird is that even when I copied the layer and pasted it into a new file all by itself, it was still there.

So now I re did the head outline, put it in the same place as the original Head with all the masking, and it works!

No clue as to why, but for now I'm just going to continue with it. Mystery not solved but situation handled.

Thanks.