Drawing this shape 'x' wide and with 'y' character, according to input

Question

I need to draw a diamond shape with the character in which the user enters. It also has to be as thick as the user enters. So it would with $ and 5 spaces long it would be something like:
  $
$$$
$$$$$
$$$
  $Ican get the input and all that stuff correctly. And I figured on using a for statement to print the characters. But I cannot figure out how to put it all together with the correct spacing and correct number of characters on each line. What I have is basically:
tnumber= (number-((number/2)-1));
for(int i=0; i < tnumber;i++)
     System.out.print(" ");
System.out.println(character);

Answer 1

hmm I have this now, except it only works for the width of 5, because thats the number I was testing as I wrote the program. Now it only works for 5, lol - How can I fix it:
//Begin displaying the graphic
               tempnumber = (number-((number/2)+1));
               for(int i=0; i < tempnumber;i++)
                    System.out.print(" ");
               System.out.println(character);          //First line of the diamond
               tempnumber = (number-((number/2)+2));
               for(int i=0; i < tempnumber;i++)
                    System.out.print(" ");
               tempcharacter = tempcharacter+2;
               for(int i=0; i < tempcharacter;i++)
                    System.out.print(character);
               System.out.println();          //Line Break
               tempnumber = (number-((number/2)+3));
               for (int i=0; i <tempnumber;i++)
                    System.out.print(" ");
               tempcharacter = tempcharacter+2;
               for (int i=0; i < tempcharacter;i++)
                    System.out.print(character);
               System.out.println();          //Line Break
               tempnumber = (number-((number/2)+2));
               for(int i=0; i < tempnumber;i++)
                    System.out.print(" ");
               tempcharacter = (tempcharacter-2);
               for(int i=0; i < tempcharacter;i++)
                    System.out.print(character);
               System.out.println();          //Line Break
               tempnumber = (number-((number/2)+1));
               for(int i=0; i < tempnumber;i++)
                    System.out.print(" ");
               System.out.println(character);     //The last Line of the diamond
               System.out.println();