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Brick Wall Drawing Tutorial

Good morning everyone. I hope you are all doing well and you're ready to do some drawing. Today you're going to learn how to draw a brick wall.

I'll be showing you several different ways to do this, using some different techniques. But I'm sure there are many others as well.

The approach you take to drawing your brick walls will be mostly determined by the look you are going after.

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Art Supplies

Drawing paper or sketchbook

Pencil

Eraser

Black outlining pen

X-Acto Knife & Cutting mat

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Brick Wall Pattern

So let's begin by looking at the basic structure of the brickwork which forms the wall. Below is a picture of a standard wall. Look at the brick wall pattern. This is what you'll be drawing today.

The wall is formed by placing identical pieces of brick in rows on top of each other. Each row is staggered as they are placed on top of one another. And mortar holds the bricks in place. Have a good reference photo is always helpful.

Now let's take a look at how this transfers into drawing a brick wall.

How to Draw a Brick Wall – Easy

This method will be the easiest of the ways I'm going to show you today. It works really well for backgrounds and to fill in empty spaces of your artwork. I drew mine in a circle, just to save some time.

Begin by drawing a straight horizontal line.

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Continue adding in horizontal lines, that are evenly spaced apart, until your area is filled. If you want your lines to be more consistent you can use a ruler. I'm drawing my brick wall free hand.

Next, draw in your vertical lines that represent the sides of your brick. You want the space between (the bricks), to be fairly close to the same size.

Now do the next row by drawing in more vertical lines directly above the center of the bricks from the row below.

Continue using this method until all of your rows are filled in and your brick wall is complete.

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For this type of brick wall drawing, the lines themselves act as the mortar in your wall. As you can see from the example, your vertical lines will line up in every other row.

How to Draw a Wall with Mortar

This next method will be a little more difficult, but will look more advanced and detailed.

I'll be using a mechanical pencil for the drawing since most of my guidelines will be erased in the final drawing. Begin by drawing your wall using the same steps that were used in the first example.

Draw your individual bricks inside of those guidelines so there is a small gap between each brick.

Continue doing this with each of your bricks. I made my bricks rounded and a little uneven. There are many different ways to draw your bricks that will give your wall a slightly different look to it.

This is what your final drawing should look like. As you can see, this is more detailed and a bit more interesting than the first example. But it also takes a little more time to draw out. I think the extra effort is worth it though. Use an eraser to clean up your drawing and remove your guidelines. I love the Mono Zero eraser for this type of work.

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Brick Wall Drawing with Template

This is the most tedious of all the ways to draw a brick wall from this lesson. However, you may find it necessary to draw your wall this way if you want your bricks to be really uniform.

First you need to make your template. You can use cardstock or some other thick type of paper. Cut your template out using a sharp knife on a cutting mat.

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Begin your drawing by making one horizontal line using a pencil. This line will act as your guideline for the rest of your brick wall drawing. Draw this line lightly, as it will only be used to line up your first row of bricks.

Use your template to draw in your first row of bricks, leaving small gaps in between each brick.

Next, draw in your second row of bricks. When you begin your next row, position your template so it is in the middle of the two bricks beneath it. You do not want your bricks to line up vertically.

As you can see in the next example, your row above and your row below the first row, should line up with each other.

Draw in the rest of your bricks using your template to complete your brick wall drawing.

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Or, you could use a ruler and measure everything out, but that's way too much for me to try to do. Using a template is much easier in my opinion.

What you do with your brick walls is entirely up to you. But, I tend to use my drawings for the backgrounds in some of my graffiti drawings. If you'd like to learn more about graffiti, check out How to Draw Graffiti Style Letters for Beginners.

Brick Wall Drawing with Graffiti

When doing graffiti drawings, brick walls are great to use for background filler. There are a lot of amazing drawings that have been done, or could be done, using brick walls.

Here's a brick wall graffiti drawing I did for one of my students.

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Your Homework

Use a roll of tape to draw circles on a piece of paper or in your sketchbook. In each circle, draw a brick wall that is different from all of the others. How many walls can you come up with?

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