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ARTTECHES NEXUS • GRAPHIC DESIGNING MASTERY

DAY 14
0:00 — INTRO, talking head or title card
“Welcome to Day 14 of Graphic Designing Mastery. Today we enter the engine room of logo design: vector paths and nodes. By the end of this lesson, you'll control every curve in CorelDRAW like a professional — and you'll sketch your first 20 logo concepts on paper. Let's begin.”
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DAY 14
0:45 — SCREEN: blank CorelDRAW document
“First, the big idea. A raster image — like a photo — is made of pixels. Zoom in, and it turns blurry. A vector object is made of math: points and curves. Zoom in forever, and it stays perfectly sharp.”
SCREEN CUE — Draw a circle. Zoom to 800% to show the edge stays crisp. Place
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DAY 14
3:00 — SCREEN: circle with Shape Tool active
“Every vector object is a path controlled by nodes. Press F10 — the Shape Tool — and click the circle. These four dots are nodes. The little lines sticking out are control handles. Drag a handle, and the curve bends. Longer handle, deeper curve.”
SCREEN CUE — Select the circle with Shape Tool, drag handles live.
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DAY 14
5:30 — SCREEN: same circle, Property bar visible
“There are three node types, and this is the most important part of today's lesson. Select a node. On the Property bar, click 'Make node a cusp.' Now drag a handle — see the sharp corner? The two handles move independently. That's a cusp: for corners and points.”
SCREEN CUE — Convert node to cusp, drag handles to show the break.
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DAY 14
7:30 — SCREEN: convert to smooth, then symmetrical
“Now click 'Make node smooth.' The corner disappears — the curve flows through the node, and the handles stay in one straight line. Smooth nodes are for elegant, flowing curves. And 'Make node symmetrical' is like smooth, but both handles stay exactly equal — perfect balance, perfect for circles and arcs.”
SCREEN CUE — Convert the node to smooth, then symmetrical, dragging handles
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DAY 14
10:00 — SCREEN: adding and deleting nodes
“Double-click anywhere on the path to add a node. Select nodes and press Delete to remove them. Remember the golden rule: fewer nodes, better logo. Extra nodes make curves lumpy.”
SCREEN CUE — Add three nodes, then delete them; show before/after zoom.
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DAY 14
12:00 — SCREEN: Bezier leaf demo
“Let's build something real: a simple leaf. With the Bezier Tool, I'll click and drag four curved points. Rough — but watch. Shape Tool: tips become cusp nodes, sides become smooth nodes, delete the extras, adjust the handles… and we have a clean, logo-ready leaf in under two minutes.”
SCREEN CUE — Draw and refine the leaf live; fill green with Shift+F11.
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DAY 14
15:30 — SLIDE: the 7 logo types
“Now, logo theory. There are seven logo types: wordmark — just the name, like a famous cola brand; lettermark — initials; pictorial — a real-world icon; abstract — a shape from imagination; mascot — a character; emblem — text inside a badge; and combination — symbol plus name. Pause the video and write one famous example under each.”
SCREEN CUE — Show a clean slide listing all 7 types with one-line
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DAY 14
18:30 — CAMERA: paper and pencil on desk
“Here's how professionals start every logo: on paper, not on the computer. Write a one-line brief. List ten keywords. Then sketch — sixty seconds per sketch, twenty thumbnails, matchbox size. Don't judge, don't erase. Bad ideas lead to good ones. Then take a break, come back, and circle your best three. Test them: simple enough for a child to draw? Different enough to recognize? Clear at the size of a coin?”
SCREEN CUE — Time-lapse of quick thumbnail sketches, then circling 3.
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DAY 14
22:30 — WRAP-UP
“Today you learned: vectors scale forever; nodes come in three types — cusp, smooth, symmetrical; the Shape Tool is your scalpel; there are seven logo types; and great logos start as twenty fast sketches. Your assignment: build a house-plus-leaf icon in CorelDRAW with twelve nodes or fewer, and sketch twenty concepts for the GreenNest brief. Tomorrow, we take your best sketch and rebuild it as a professional vector logo. See you on Day 15.”
SCREEN CUE — Title card with assignment summary.
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