{"id":467,"date":"2009-09-23T02:45:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T07:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=467"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:02:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:02:56","slug":"samurai-night-fever-another-visual-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/09\/23\/samurai-night-fever-another-visual-metaphor\/","title":{"rendered":"Samurai Night Fever: Another Visual Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s another Visual Metaphor.<\/strong><\/em> This one happens to be my client’s favorite.<\/p>\n

In the first frame, our executive is cutting a bloody path to success. In the second frame, having gained a modicum of success, he deals with the challenges of balancing the way of the warrior and that of the artist. He’s also trying to balance work and family. In the final frame, he’s an orchestra conductor. I’m not sure what happened to Yojimbo, either. I just illustrate them, folks.<\/p>\n

I like the flames in the first one. That’s not a photo of fire. It was created in Photoshop! All three panels are a combination of Photoshop, Illustrator, and I think I needed to do some hand-drawn work for this as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s another Visual Metaphor. This one happens to be my client’s favorite. In the first frame, our executive is cutting a bloody path to success. In the second frame, having gained a modicum of success, he deals with the challenges … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[27,3661,5,39,3660],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visual-metaphors","tag-digital-illustration","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-visual-metaphor","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-7x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39796,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/01\/04\/visual-metaphor-climb-every-mountain\/","url_meta":{"origin":467,"position":0},"title":"Visual Metaphor \u2022 Climb Every Mountain","author":"Joe","date":"January 4, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"This is another in a series of visual metaphors that I provide as a learning tool for executive coaches in order to develop their clients\u2019 leadership skills. 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