Barbs - illustration

I was a happy fan and collector of SQP Gallery Girls art in the late '90s and early '00s. One might say these are SQPieces (ouch!).

I enjoyed the books' umbrella concept of commissioning artists to create classy pin-ups in pencil only.

Each title revolved around a theme, often a supernatural or fantasy concept. Witches, female vampires, devil girls, mermaids and jungle girls all received their due in the series, to name a few.

Sebastià Boda was one of the Spanish artists recruited for the sole Barbs volume. I'm a sucker for tonal pencil art anyway, and I like the dynamic sketchiness of Boada's style. His female faces are also spectacular, as shown here.