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Ryan Barr

@artbyrbarr.bsky.social

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Ryan Barr @artbyrbarr.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hello #PortfolioDay! My name is Ryan Barr and I’m an illustrator that loves to draw posters for your walls and covers for your books!

💳 Print Store: rbarr-shop.fourthwall.com/
🎨 Portfolio Website: artbyrbarr.com
✉️ Email: [email protected]

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 12h

Halloween treat idea.

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1h

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

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Roberto Duque @radpencils.bsky.social · 2h

Batober Day 9:
HEAVY
#inktober #inktober2025 #batober

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Roberto Duque @radpencils.bsky.social · 1d

Batober Day 8:
RECKLESS
#inktober #inktober2025 #batober

Ryan Barr @artbyrbarr.bsky.social · 3h

So I'm basing most of this off getting into a big artist alley discord, and the rules they follow to get in are the same rules as big cons that do artist alley. I think these rules have been in place for a while- any artist who uses logos/names got permission from the ip holders and give them a cut.

Ryan Barr @artbyrbarr.bsky.social · 3h

I generally completely get it, you basically need to draw fan art that can be labeled as parody if anyone should ask questions. Makes total sense to me as a protection.

But yea that last part is what gets me! I feel like using a fragment to song lyrics cant be copy written?

Ryan Barr @artbyrbarr.bsky.social · 3h

If anyone who follows me has also had to work around all of this for conventions, I would love to hear from you with how you generally handle this. Bonus points if you're like me and love making posters with typography, I'd love to hear how you still do that without brand identifiers.

Ryan Barr @artbyrbarr.bsky.social · 3h

The only thing I don't quite get is not being able to use song lyrics/track titles. So if I make a Spongebob thing that doesn't have his name on it but maybe it has "Are ya Ready, Kids?" on it, can I be sued? I don't understand how that points out the IP harder than the character itself.

Ryan Barr @artbyrbarr.bsky.social · 3h

I'm both excited and bummed by this, as my ultimate goal in life is to be paid to make posters for movies and animation, etc.

But I really love the idea of leaning so hilariously hard into an entire bootleg aesthetic and brand. That would be a really fun challenge.

Ryan Barr @artbyrbarr.bsky.social · 3h

I will be making an "end of days" sale of the pieces that fit this category that will be so epic for anyone who ever wanted one of my posters. It's going to be so relentlessly affordable! I have so many to get rid of now!

Ryan Barr @artbyrbarr.bsky.social · 3h

Having done research into how Artist Alley works at the bigger conventions, I've figured out that a good chunk of my work/prints are going to have to be reworked or taken off market entirely. Totally understandable and willing to play the no logos/names game, but it does make me hate ai SO MUCH MORE

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17h

oh yikes

“The most disappointing aspect of this is how utterly hypocritical the use of AI is on Taylor’s project,” one longtime Swiftie seethed to Rolling Stone. “The fact that her/her team opted to go this route instead of hiring a real 3D/CGI artist when they have seemingly an endless budget (as a billionaire signed to a major record label) is a disappointing sign of the times.”

“I think it is very, very lazy and disappointing to use generative AI to create videos a human being very much could have done,” another die-hard fan said, this time on TikTok.

The reversal is particularly stinging to her fan base because Swift herself has criticized AI in the past after her likeness was stolen without her consent in graphic deepfaked imagery and then-candidate Donald Trump used an AI-generated Swift to endorse him during the election.

Ryan Barr @artbyrbarr.bsky.social · 14h

ALSO! If I go all in on tabling- I want to try and enact an east coast PA/NJ specific community fund of comiccon artists. I think this could be amazing and I think it could be a possible way for artists to really help each other push forward.

Ryan Barr @artbyrbarr.bsky.social · 14h

I have had a mega realization that in order for me to table at all the big conventions of the east coast that I'd want to do and WOULD make money doing, I can't have a full time job w/full time job hours. The schedule to do those shows makes no sense to have a FTJ.

This is both AMAZING and SCARY.

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Trevor Fraley @illustrevor.bsky.social · 18h

Peacemaker...What a joke

Ryan Barr @artbyrbarr.bsky.social · 16h

Look I know it's all corporate IP, but it is WILD having comic company crossovers in our lord 2025. This really feels like the days before everything had shareholders become the business.

Scott Snyder (NYCC Booth #H-44) @ssnyder1835.bsky.social · 16h

New challengers are approaching DC K.O. this February...

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 2d

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Alex Connolly ▞ @alexconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

Stewart Lee when confronted by a podcaster brandishing ChatGPT-generated questions.

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 4d

protest for Palestine in Shibuya Tokyo !

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George @hannahtempler.com · 1d

Just announced at NYCC! A new Vertigo series from Grace and I about fandom, obsession... and parasocial chaos :)

the cover for Fanatic, a new series from DC vertigo by Hannah Templer and Grace Ellis. The cover depicts a woman cast half in shadow, looking back over her shoulder in a look of surprise as she is caught holding a shovel and wearing a tattered costume in a wooded area. The colors are in two tones of blue and red

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"Frightening" Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, maybe the average viewer can't tell and doesn't care. But why the fuck would SOMEONE WHO MAKES ART hand that process off to a machine? The big question here is, why don't YOU care?

"Frightening" Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 2d

Blum too. At least find a new way to say "it's here to stay" jfc

Ryan Barr @artbyrbarr.bsky.social · 2d

Thunderously disappointed

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 3d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 2d

Jim Lee openly disparaging AI in no way guarantees anything, no one knows what the future of AI is and no one knows who will be in charge at DC Comics down the line. But I think it's important that a popular artist publicly shot AI down. Fans and artists ignorant of or using AI need to hear this.

Ryan Barr @artbyrbarr.bsky.social · 2d

I want it to be absolutely clear and understood that it is my core belief that people who want stuff like this, people who fight for stuff like this, should in any reasonable reality, lose their ability to co exist in society with the rest of us. Failed attempts that need to be thrown away.

Orlando Sentinel @orlandosentinel.com · 2d

New bill seeks to lower Florida’s gun-buying age, undoing law passed after Parkland massacre trib.al/MkBXpAh

New bill seeks to lower Florida’s gun-buying age, undoing law passed after Parkland massacre

Amid a U.S. Supreme Court case on the issue, a Republican lawmaker filed a proposal that would lower the minimum age to purchase rifles and other long guns in Florida from 21 to 18.