1. A crisp, formal approach to brickwork using outline and hatching
A crisp, formal approach to brickwork using outline and hatching. You wouldn't want to use this over a large area, unless you've the patience of a saint. The clean, mechanical look can look attractive in the right context.

2. Quick, irregular hatching lends itself well to informal sketches, especially when drawing old, weathered bricks.

3. Brickwork on a large scale or in more finished sketches works well with varied hatching. Use a basically consistent direction to create a coherent texture across the whole surface, changing weight and direction to suggest the irregularities between different bricks and within the brick surface.

4. Wandering, broken lines create a convincing stone wall texture, reminding the viewer of the stone pattern without describing every single block. Pencil guidelines are useful to indicate any strong horizontals to help keep perspective correct. Let the line wander a little and vary the lineweight to create an informal feel, breaking lines and leaving some unfinished to prevent an 'outlined look'. Where horizontals and verticals join it can look almost like a flattened tree, with branches and roots spreading outwards, but tapering off here and there.

5. Soft line and shading create a stone wall texture in this quick sketch
Soft line and shading create a stone wall texture in this quick sketch. Variations in shading and lineweight suggest the changing texture and tone of the stones without being too pedantic about it - try squinting at the wall to observe a general pattern of light and dark, rather than precisely matching every stone.`

6. Stippling works well for quite small scale drawings, or larger scale if you have the patience. Draw in random patches, returning back to the same area to fill in patches of stipple, in order to avoid a mechanical pattern effect.

7. Slightly darker stippling on the lower edge of the bricks can suggest cast shadow. Some irregularity occurs in the mortar so allow some stippling to wander between the bricks unless you are trying to create a very crisp contrast. New, unweathered bricks will need more patience to create a regular surface, with random but even spacing of dots. Old, worn bricks are much more forgiving.