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Asking about drawing brick textures


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Hi, 

So I wasn't sure where exactly to post this; I'm a novice with as far as illustrations are concerned and I'm currently tracing images to currrently better understand shapes.

Currently, I'm working with on tracing a house and I'm trying to search for the appropriate method people use to build brick patterns that do have various sizes aside from being super symmetrical. I just like that organic touch that real picture has in which no two bricks are exactly the same.

I don't mind painstakingly doing it by hand, but would like to see if I could gain any insight from you guys.

Also - I'm using a traditional mouse, but I'm quite patient.





 

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If you mean a regular brick pattern, but the individual bricks are a bit distinctive (chipped, warped, set imperfectly), it may be easiest to start with an exactly regular pattern of equally sized rectangles, convert the rectangles to curves, then add points to the curves and tweak them appropriately.  You don't have to do an entire wall this way.  You can tweak a repeating/tiling group, then replicate and offset the group.  If you combine that with brick coloring variations whose repeat pattern (if any) does not align with the tweaked brick group repeat, you get a pretty convincing "old brick" wall.

If you mean a dressed fieldstone or ashlar wall, where blocks are substantially different in size and shape from one another, there are a couple of ways to proceed.  One way is to start with a fine square or rectangular grid as snapping guides, and a pair of dice.  Work left to right (or the reverse) and bottom to top.  Roll the dice to get height and width in terms of grid lines for a block.  Always use the larger dimension as the width.  You may want to limit proportions so you don't have 1x6 rectangles, or you might like that.  Draw a rectangle for the block at an appropriate place in the wall you are building up, like playing Tetris.  If a block must span over gaps in lower layers, create blocks to fill the gaps.  Do as the brick wall above to add irregularities to the block outlines.  If you want noticeable mortar joints (many ashlar walls are laid dry, without visible mortar), use the contour tool before adding irregularities to shrink the blocks for a consistent mortar seam width.

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