Scale Brush Stroke?

Hello... New to Illustrator...
I'd like to scale a brush stroke. How do I do this? Please see below.
Left is original stroke
Right is resized by pressing shift then pulling box to upper right.
I found on the forum to tick preferences - scale strokes & effects but still not working?
Thank you,
RF

This is the default behavior of brushes. They are "live" and are simply reapplied to your path as you adjust your path (scaling or otherwise). This has nothing to do with scaling strokes or effects -- this is a brush, not a stroke, and not an effect.
To get what I think you want, you will need to do one of the following before you scale the path:
- Select the path and choose Object > Expand Appearance. This will reduce the brush to actual art that will scale as you would expect.
- Turn the path into a Symbol. Then scale the symbol.
- Select the path and click the Options Of Selected Object button that appears at the bottom of the Brushes panel. In the dialog that appears, check the Proportional option.
- Double click the brush in the Brushes panel. In the dialog box that appears, choose the Scale Proportionately setting. This will change the behavior of the brush of course.
Mordy

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