Stuck On Pyramid Program

I have spent some time thinking about the program, and realize I need two loops-- 1 that keeps track of bricks in a row and 1 that keeps track of the number of rows as the Pyramid rises in height. The Pyramid is supposed to be centered on the bottom of the screen. Three CONSTANTS have been required:

BRICK_WIDTH=30, BRICK_HEIGHT=12, BRICKS_IN_BASE=14.

I tried breaking the scope of things down by trying step-wise refinement. But, I got bogged down. When I tried a method where both loops were included, I got limited success. For some reason, my equation to center along the x axis seems to be doubling the number of bricks. But, the correct number of total rows of bricks was a success. Also, the Pyramid was centered on the bottom of the screen. Another frustrating failure was that the number of bricks would not decrease as the new layers were created. My thought process was instead of using a loop that counts up (i++) I would use a loop that counts down (j--) which I thought would reduce the number of brick in each row as the "y" coordinate was reduced by each count of the BRICK_HEIGHT.

This is the code that "works". Whenever I add the (j--) the results are NOT what I expect.

/*
* File: Pyramid.java
* Name:
* Section Leader:
* ------------------
* This file is the starter file for the Pyramid problem.
* It includes definitions of the constants that match the sample run in the assignment,
* but you should make sure that changing these values causes the generated display to change accordingly.
*
[code].....