Morgan Bryn Lees

a digital illustration of a smiley face (3 lines total) resulting in a 53.7% ai likelihood evaluation

Kind of an awkward PSA because I've had some artist mutuals recommend these sites/tools, but
"ai image detection" tools are snake oil, and I feel like nobody bothered to scrutinize them.

So I opened photoshop cs6, drew a smiley face, and uploaded it to the "accurate" detector:

An illustration of Ceth, a Star Trek ttrpg character.

An illustration of Dewbug the clown, a ttrpg/dnd NPC.

An illustration of Vega, a Star Trek ttrpg character, praying to two different deities.

An illustration of Taderomon, a fan-made digimon design.

✨ Monthly reminder: I have commissions open!
Commission Form: forms.gle/hwuVPsytTAWT...

You can make a request thru the form above, or message me directly! Here or at 💌 cosmignon.info@gmail.com

#commission #commissionsopen #ttrpgcharacterdesign #ttrpg #dnd

The text "Read Black Comics" on an inky almost-grey textured background.

CALLING ALL BLACK COMIC ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND ALL-AROUND CARTOONISTS!

Reply to or quote this post showing off your favorite work so we can get more people reading your creations!

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

Hey everyone!

Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today!

But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold.

I just resorted our list to put those on the top.

Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!

Comics of the Week 4!  This week's theme song is Strange Magic by ELO!  Check out broken: https://broken.spiderforest.com/?utm_source=CoTW2026 and Aster and the Fire: https://asterandthefire.com/?utm_source=CoTW2026 #spiderforest #COTW #ComicsoftheWeek

Books I read in 2025 My reading from 2025. Towards the start of the year I thought it was possible I would not get much reading done, but despite moving and everything, I read a fair amount. As usual, I've separated the l...

This month's blog post is up on Scattered Leaves, a brief summary of what I read last year.

scattered-leaves.ghost.io/books-i-read...

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Quote with your starry art

5 sketches of Deinocheirus in different positions. Some of the sketches are details of its head and neck

Let’s sketch the magnificent beast that is Deinocheirus!

Deinocheirus mirificus was a huge ornithomimosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in Asia. This herbivorous dinosaur had huge arms with large claws that were probably primarily used for digging or gathering plants

#paleoart #dinosaurs

If you need a break from... everything... I'm pleased to remind you all that it's #goblinweek, and a lot of cartoonists and illustrators are drawing a lot of delightful, whimsical things. Check out the hashtag!

IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST WINTER STORM, REMEMBER FOUR TIPS: 1. FILL UP YOUR TUB AND/OR POTS WITH WATER FOR YOUR TOILET. 2. DO NOT USE PROPANE HEATERS INDOORS. THE FUMES KILL. 3. EVERYONE STAYING IN ONE ROOM CONSOLIDATES WARMTH. 4. THE NORWEGIAN CAMP DIDN'T DESTROY ITSELF. ONE OF YOU IS THE THING.

Some safety tips for the big storm! Be safe, everybody.

Heyo, Chicago pals: Quick note that the executive vice president of the Bob Loquercio Auto Group is vociferously defending the murder of Alex Pretti.

The auto group has 16 locations in and around Chicago, listed below. Please take your business elsewhere.

www.blautogroup.com/locations/in...

Chicago, the temp is going to drop late tomorrow night, and we'll see wind chills of −30 °F or lower on Friday and Saturday. Check on unhoused neighbors and people without reliable heat. Make sure they know their options. If you venture out, wear your warmest coat and cover up as much as you can.

This image of the Helix Nebula from the ground-based Visible and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (left) shows the full view of the planetary nebula, with boxes highlighting Webb’s field of view (right). The new image of a portion of the Helix Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope highlights comet-like knots, fierce stellar winds, and layers of gas shed off by a dying star interacting with its surrounding environment. Image: ESO, VISTA, NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Emerson (ESO); Acknowledgment: CASU

A breathtaking look at a dying star. This new image of the Helix Nebula is just in from JWST.

We've never seen this level of detail, as the star's remains stream back out to interstellar space. Our Sun will look something like this 7 billion years from now. 🧪🔭

science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

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We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to make some updates to our website and to improve the membership sign-up and renewals process 💻

#pride #f1 #motorsport #lgbtq

The Cartoonist Cooperative Making comics better for everyone!

As a longstanding indie creator collective, we stand with Hiveworks Artist Guild in the spirit of support for the broader comics community.

We express solidarity with our peers in the right to respectful, transparent, accountable work relationships.
cartoonist.coop/hiveworks-gu...

Hey everyone,

We literally just added 100 more trans girl scouts to the trans girl scout cookie list. The list is bigger than it has ever been in EITM history.

Go get some cookies and make a trans scout's day!

I drew this remix of the old meme because I find myself constantly annoyed

Traveling by train means that I end up passing through a lot of states whenever I go to farther-away places.

Let 2026 be the year you draw your weird cringe sci-fi/fantasy webcomic, don't let that shit die with you having never left your head.

Yo! Autumn Wing and the Crown of Fire is updating again! Starting today with the cover XD This one's been a long time coming, as this was the longest break btwn chapters I've taken. Thanks for waiting ☺️🍁

autumnwing.spiderforest.com

Art vs Artist 2025. Considering everything that went on this year, I got a surprisingly large amount of art done!

Art Summary: 2025 Year's-end art summary, featuring all of the art that I finished in 2025.

My year's-end art summary is up on Scattered Leaves!

One panel comic with one person saying to another: Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

A two-panel comic drawing. The first panel says “why use water-hungry AI…”, accompanied by an abstract drawing of a dark cloud extending fingers into Earth or water. The second panel says “when you can support dehydrated artists?”. The image is of a skull next to a paintbrush and a palette. The skull says “we’re very low impact”.

Support us dry dry humans

Scene from OFFICE SPACE with Michael Bolton replying to Samir Nagheenanajar: “No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.”

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

a meme showing two men, one (RGB) in vibrant blue, magenta and yellow about to be stabbed, and the other (CYMK) in the same colors desaturated, about to stab him

Getting Back in the Swing of Things After some hitches (including a rather literal run-in with a deer on the way back to Michigan once), I'm all moved and settled in Chicago and slowly I'm getting back into things. I've had to spend mor...

Update on Scattered Leaves (my newsletter/blog, where I post a variety of things usually about once a month, including updates on what I'm doing)

Relearning how to social media again. But luckily, still been chipping away at Autumn Wing Chapter 7 (albeit much slower than usual for me). Here's a lil preview for the cover and first few pages XD #autumnwingcomic #webcomics #spiderforest