^{Beach Bodies}

^{Beach Bodies is a project I wanted to do after creating an illustration with a similar distortion effect. I thought the premise would work well for a young adult romance, and set about trying to think of ways to make the composition effective. I went through several variations before landing on the sketch below (left) which I eventually refined to the sketch on the right.}

^{After settling on this design, I painted the final version in gouache and cleaned it up in Procreate. After some thought, I decided on a chunky san serif font for the title and a distorted font for the byline to mimic the distortion of the water.}