์‰๋„์ž‰ ์—ฐ์Šต: How I Became a Full-time Artist ๐Ÿงš #clayartist #smallbusiness - ์˜์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜์–ด ๋งํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ธฐ

๋ ˆ์Šจ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์ค‘...
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Let's talk about how I became a full-time artist while I refill my fountain pen.
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My friend sent me her favorite burgundy inks
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but this one has already been filled with turquoise so I want to clean it real fast.
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Growing up I was always really into art and making things
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and crafting but throughout middle school and high school I actually never really took any art classes.
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I think I was just really lost on who I was
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and then during my senior year of high school I had this epiphany.
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I wanted to be an artist.
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I didn't know what kind of artist, but I just knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I applied to my local university for graphic design.
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I live in Denver, Colorado, so it was not very competitive at all.
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It was also a very affordable university.
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I did not care about prestige.
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I just wanted education.
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It was there in graphic design school that I really discovered my love of design and art and, most importantly, storytelling.
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I think my program did a really good job at teaching
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me the merits of graphic design in terms of marketing and branding and selling a product.
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So during my second year of college in 2020, the pandemic happened of course.
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My parents were really struggling with money back then so I was thinking of ways that I could ease their load.
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I saw a ton of people online sculpting with polymer clay
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and polymer clay was actually my favorite medium when I was a kid.
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It felt like fate.
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I started my business called Uncomfy Studio.
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I started posting online and that's kind of how I got my start on my career.
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Over the years, my brand
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and my art has really just become a love letter to my inner child
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because I know what it's like to not believe in yourself and I just want you to believe in yourself too.
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Thanks for listening.

์™œ ์ด ์˜์ƒ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋งํ•˜๊ธฐ ์—ฐ์Šต์„ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”?

์ด ์˜์ƒ์—์„œ๋Š” ํ•œ ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์ „์—… ์ž‘๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ์—ฌ์ •์„ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๋А๋‚€ ๊ฐ์ •๊ณผ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๋“ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์˜์–ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ์–ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌํ…”๋ง์˜ ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ, ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์ธ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐฐ์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ฐ์Šต์€ ์˜์–ด ์‰๋„์ž‰ ๋ฐ ์˜์–ด ํšŒํ™” ์—ฐ์Šต์— ์œ ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๋ฉด, ํ•™์Šต์ž๋“ค์€ ๋” ๊นŠ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ผ์ƒ ๋Œ€ํ™”์—์„œ๋„ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ๊ฐ€์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฌธ๋งฅ ์†์˜ ๋ฌธ๋ฒ• ๋ฐ ํ‘œํ˜„

๋ฐœํ‘œ์ž๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฌธ๋ฒ• ๊ตฌ์กฐ์™€ ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋Š” ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋Œ€ํ™”์—์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ์œ ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • โ€œI wanted to be an artist.โ€ - ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์†Œ๋ง์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•  ๋•Œ ์œ ์šฉํ•œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • โ€œI didnโ€™t know what kind of artist.โ€ - ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • โ€œIt felt like fate.โ€ - ์šด๋ช…์  ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•  ๋•Œ ์ ํ•ฉํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ์ • ํ‘œํ˜„์ด ์ œํ’ˆ์ด๋‚˜ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ํ™๋ณดํ•  ๋•Œ๋„ ๋งค์šฐ ์œ ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • โ€œI started my business.โ€ - ํ–‰๋™์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋“ค์€ shadow speech๋ฅผ ์—ฐ์Šตํ•  ๋•Œ ์œ ์šฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๋ฐœ์Œ ํ•จ์ •

๋ฐœ์Œ ์—ฐ์Šต์—์„œ๋„ ์ฃผ์˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐœํ‘œ์ž๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋‹จ์–ด๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๋•Œ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์Œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ํ•จ์ •์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค:

  • โ€œpolymer clayโ€ - ์ด ๋‹จ์–ด๋Š” ๋ฐœ์Œํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋ณต์žกํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฃผ์˜ ๊นŠ๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ์Šตํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • โ€œartistโ€ - โ€˜aโ€™๋ฅผ ์งง๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์Œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๊ณ , โ€˜tโ€™ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋‚ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • โ€œstrugglingโ€ - ์–ต์–‘์„ ์ž˜๋ชป ์ •ํ•˜๋ฉด ์›์Œ๊ณผ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋А๋‚Œ์„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ๋ฐœ์Œ ์—ฐ์Šต์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐœ์Œ ํ•จ์ •๋“ค์„ ํ”ผํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ shadowspeak ์—ฐ์Šต์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋”์šฑ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ์œ ์ฐฝํ•œ ๋งํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‰๋„์ž‰์ด๋ž€? ์˜์–ด ์‹ค๋ ฅ์„ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋Š” ๊ณผํ•™์  ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•

์‰๋„์ž‰(Shadowing)์€ ์›๋ž˜ ์ „๋ฌธ ํ†ต์—ญ์‚ฌ ํ›ˆ๋ จ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๋œ ์–ธ์–ด ํ•™์Šต ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ, ๋‹ค์–ธ์–ด ํ•™์ž์ธ Dr. Alexander Arguelles์— ์˜ํ•ด ๋Œ€์ค‘ํ™”๋œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์›๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค: ์›์–ด๋ฏผ์˜ ์˜์–ด๋ฅผ ๋“ค์œผ๋ฉด์„œ 1~2์ดˆ์˜ ์งง์€ ์ง€์—ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ ๋‚ด์–ด ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒโ€”โ€”๋งˆ์น˜ '๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž(shadow)'์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ™”์ž๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌธ๋ฒ• ๊ณต๋ถ€๋‚˜ ์ˆ˜๋™์ ์ธ ์ฒญ์ทจ์™€ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ, ์‰๋„์ž‰์€ ๋‡Œ์™€ ์ž… ๊ทผ์œก์ด ๋™์‹œ์— ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ์˜์–ด๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žฌํ˜„ํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ›ˆ๋ จํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ๋ฐœ์Œ ์ •ํ™•๋„, ์–ต์–‘, ๋ฆฌ๋“ฌ, ์—ฐ์Œ, ์ฒญ์ทจ๋ ฅ, ๋งํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ ์ฐฝ์„ฑ์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. IELTS ์Šคํ”ผํ‚น ์ค€๋น„์™€ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์˜์–ด ์†Œํ†ต์„ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํŠนํžˆ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.