Chiku is swimming. And no, this isn't the ocean, it's the lake, so she didn't dive all the way down an ocean. I'm actually kind of proud of this picture. c:
After I had gotten back from vacation it took me a day to remember how to draw lions properly again. Like, their eyes were too far from their muzzles and their foreheads were too wide and their ears were too small and... *Rambles on*
And another thing I noticed about the "ocean" thing. Not only would she have been shark-food by that time, but the pressure at the bottom of the sea would have crushed her, not to mention the fact that she would have drowned before she got halfway down.