The Red Sonja by Josh Middleton

This piece was done by Josh Middleton at the San Diego Comic Con International. He was appearing at the Heroes Initiative Booth on Saturday 07/25/09 and Sunday 07/26/09. On Saturday, I waited nearly 2 hours early before his scheduled appearance (and was still only 2nd in line with that great of a lead-time and then the line proceed to grow 'til it was eventually capped, as a testament to his popularity and fan following). This piece took nearly 1 hour to draw from fine penciling to detailed inking of this near full figure RED SONJA. I was on his commission list since 2004 when I first met him at Wizard World Los Angeles, and it's great to get a high quality piece like this from him since he doesn't make many convention appearances and generally has a workload that keeps him too busy to do commissions or sketch... but this was a special charity event in which he donated his time to raise funds for The Hero Initiative, so it was a great opportunity to support the Hero Initiative and to add a masterpiece to my collection.