Some friends asked Front Street how to practice the swinging motion of the embossing cylinder when embossing. This article is a supplement to "How to draw beautiful embossing lines?" Friends who have not seen it can click on the link to take a look. The above content will not be repeated in this article.
The first problem is that if your drawing is asymmetrical, there is only one possibility, and that is that your milk jug and coffee cup do not form a straight line.
Why form a straight line? Viewed from the front and side, you can only see the flat shape of the latte art vat and coffee cup, but not its three-dimensional shape.
When viewed from above, the handle of the coffee cup faces inward, so that when the drawing is drawn, the graphic will be front-facing (only for the right hand). The middle line of the latte art vat and the coffee cup will form a parallel straight line, so that when the drawing is drawn, it will be symmetrical.
The second question is if when you emboss, the lines are dense on one side and sparse on the other. There are two possibilities. The first may be caused by the first problem, and the second may be that the strength of your swing cylinder is uneven, that is, the swing range of one side is large and the swing range of the other side is small.
Front Street’s advice to you is not to practice with milk first, but start with the grabbing movement in an empty tank, as shown in the video below:
First, get familiar with the force-generating point of the swing cylinder. As demonstrated in the video, the thumb is responsible for fixing the position, and the other four fingers exert force to make the cylinder handle become the fulcrum, making the raffle cylinder swing back and forth.If you have mastered the principle of force generation, you can use clean water to practice, such as the video below:
This back-and-forth swinging cylinder exercise is the most important process. Control the water flow and the swing range of the water. Because practicing with water is different from practicing with an empty cylinder. When using water, you will receive corresponding resistance from the water when swinging. To practice keeping the water flow consistent with the swing range, you need to practice patiently and persistently. And it can also be seen from the video that as the water in the tank decreases, it becomes easier and easier to swing.
Anyway, this is not a particularly difficult skill, it all depends on muscle memory. If the swing cylinder is not swinging well, it must be due to insufficient practice.
The third problem is that your embossing lines are very thick. There are two possibilities for this. The first possibility is that your milk foam is too thick. The second one is probably the most difficult to change, which is the inertia of attaching the cup to the picture. In the past, it was more stable to draw the white heart, push the tulip, and stick the mouth of the vat to the coffee cup, but it created limitations in the embossing. When swinging the vase, it is easy for the swing to be blocked and it is too close to the liquid level, resulting in thick white lines and no aesthetic feeling.
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