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Yeah, a timelapse of his full process would be appropriate evidence here. If one exists and someone could share a link that would be great.

Take this with a grain of salt. But I have a friend that is a very bright artist since she was a child. Not this level of skill, but really really close with the chalks. I say that it is 'possible' but unlikely.

I know it's not always Occam's razor, but in this case I tend to be the party pooper. This was probably drawn by an adult and now they try to make it a story. There are amazing young artists out there, but this kind of detail, the boy either learned how to draw one or two specific pictures again and again or somebody has helped with this.

I might also be wrong and we've seen the next art child prodigy, but I doubt it.

What about this? https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/04/africa/nigerian-boy-paint...

That obviously couldn't be taught by an adult, so the child would be able to specifically draw that one picture...