I can fly Illustration

I was asked by a friend If I would do an Illustration for her daughters bedroom, from one of her favorite children's books.
This was the sketch I did after looking at the Illustration. I worked to make sure it was very close to the original Illustration. I also took some creative liberty when it came to designing the different fish. I added a little octopus in the right side. For some strange reason I felt like the girls swimming inner-tube needed to have a patch on it. I find that I have to work hard to not make my cartoons all look like Disney characters. When I learned to draw cartoons when I was younger thats all I wanted to draw. It was only after I started to get interested in other types of art that I started to see the zillions of different styles of drawing cartoons out there. Many of the styles I now enjoy more than Disney's character designs.
The origanal Illustration from the

children's book I Can Fly. The Illustration

was done by Mary Blair.