Sara Kipin

🌱Illustration and Visual Development🌱 ✨Character Designer on Avatar Seven Havens✨ (she/they)

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First day at SDCC! Come by and say hi! 💕

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My menu for San Diego Comic Con! I prioritized stationary this year and will have a ton of new washi tape, stickers, and sticky notes! Hope to see you there! ❤️

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Will we perhaps see any of the comic con merch through an online store eventually or will these be exclusive?

Unfortunately my full time job keeps me from running an online store currently, but I'll definitely keep considering it! Thanks for the ask!

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sorry if this has been asked before, but will you be tabling at lightbox this year?

I was put on the waitlist, so I'll make a post if that changes! Thank you for asking ❤️ But I am also tabling at Rose City Comic Con in September!

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My menu for San Diego Comic Con! I prioritized stationary this year and will have a ton of new washi tape, stickers, and sticky notes! Hope to see you there! ❤️

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Berserk print and washi tape for SDCC 💋

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Hello, Avatar Pavi!

Made this little print in preparation for SDCC 💜 every day that goes by brings everyone closer to meeting her! I'm so excited 😭

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So excited to announce and soft launch my graphic novel I’ve been working on! The character of Neuro was originally invented for a TTRPG back in 2020 and has since been reincarnated into a separate narrative that I wanted to tell for quite some time. Animation work has kept it on the back burner, but I’ve been slowly chipping away at it! I’ll soon be launching a new Patreon dedicated to the project and will keep you all updated once that’s ready! I’m so excited! 🌱🤖

First image is some of the new character designs and all other images are from 2020-2022 💚

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Sara Kipin — Illustration, Comics, and Visual Development

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It's finally here! 💕

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Sara Kipin — Illustration, Comics, and Visual Development

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Announcing my brand new Patreon! It's finally here! As a welcome gift, all paid members receive free digital PDFs of my sketchbooks and past zines. Posts will begin next week starting with character designs and preproduction art for my new comic. I'm so excited! ❤️🌙

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Freek'n You washi tape for SDCC ✨🍝

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God Hand washi tape for SDCC because I wanted to fulfill my sick desire to see them all as chibis 🤏

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If you can’t talk about it that’s okay! But, what’s it like working on Avatar Seven havens?

It's a lot of fun! High profile shows like this one are always very stressful, but the juice will be worth the squeeze for sure. It looks gorgeous 🥲

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in light of the avatar aang movie leak, is the work on seven havens in jeopardy?

totally fine if you cant say, i hope your day is going well and your art goes even better!

Thank you so much! And since we're separate teams, there shouldn't be any direct consequences (hopefully)

But if anyone has watched the leaked version, please do your best to support the actual movie when it comes out! That tells Nick that the IP is still worth the financial hit and it will continue to fund Avatar Studios. Hopefully the talks of it getting a theatrical release are true, which would make it even easier to access for a lot of ppl

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Anything to walk on land 🔪 2021

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So excited to announce and soft launch my graphic novel I’ve been working on! The character of Neuro was originally invented for a TTRPG back in 2020 and has since been reincarnated into a separate narrative that I wanted to tell for quite some time. Animation work has kept it on the back burner, but I’ve been slowly chipping away at it! I’ll soon be launching a new Patreon dedicated to the project and will keep you all updated once that’s ready! I’m so excited! 🌱🤖

First image is some of the new character designs and all other images are from 2020-2022 💚

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what are your major artistic inspirations? I think I see some anime/manga influence in ur characters[specifically MAPPA vibes] and there's also some studio Ghibli influence in ur backgrounds[at least from what I can tell].

Thank you so much! My influences mostly come from Rankin Bass films and other retro animated movies! Think The Hobbit 1977, The Last Unicorn, as well as Sleeping Beauty. Eyvind Earle taught me to love drawing backgrounds! Also any dark fantasy movie from the 1980s probably inspired me in some way.

Some other miscellaneous things of note be it fashion design or overall character design aesthetics are Kingdom Hearts, Ghibli, Berserk, From Software, HunterxHunter, Naruto, Dragon Age, NieR, and D. Gray Man!

Thanks for the ask!

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My piece for the upcoming Gallery Nucleus tribute show "Together From Afar: A How to Train Your Dragon Tribute Exhibition" ! Opening Reception is on April 11th from 5–8 pm 🐉☁️