Link to the challenge result announcement.
https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/monthly-update-27/?pk_kwd=KritaMonthlyUpdate-Edition27
Krita hosts these painting events monthly then gives the award to their best pick.
Here is the link to the winner, by Mythmaker.
https://krita.org/images/posts/2025/mu27_mouse_sage-mythmaker.jpeg
Anyway, out of curiosity, I ran it through https://wasitai.com/. This is what it tells me.
We are quite confident that this image, or significant part of it, was created by AI.
In a previous version the author started the tail at a slightly different spot (hidden, behind the body ) too. He had time to refine it in the latest, featured version.