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As you can see on the mouth part there are two mouth lines. There are no work-in progress images, so it made me think that way.
I'm curious if this was discussed before, but when I have no time to create actual art independently, I outsource and pay someone to create the digital art for me. So for this one, I did outsource it, so I asked him, and he said that it wasn't AI. I hope this doesn't disqualify me from joining this contest, and I will also show work-in-progress images.

If this is not AI, I assume you can provide the source file with layers for this work as you said that you have paid for it. Because if not, I think he's lying.