I can't believe it's been a year since Frizzard, Zarcoil, Suchip and Suchobile were introduced to the Mazah region, glad to see the new Smaugust fakemon
i'm so glad you haven't restricted yourself to making this month's pokemon explicitly dragon type, leaves so much breathing room for the designs to grow. k'noggin looks so sick, looking at the silhouettes its evos seem to turn into some kind of speedy physical sweeper, like gigalith's opposite
I know that this smaugust doesn’t have a full story, but I like to imagine that all of these dragons are being summoned/made by a little old witch in. A Hansel and gretel esc candy house making a “cookbook” of how to make all these dragons
I want this to be a cute manga series about that witch’s granddaughter journeying through a magical land for exotic ingredients to literally make new friends. Her granny accidentally got turned into tiny a sand-witch dragon, and perches on her shoulder giving snarky advice.
I absolutely love that the Jelly Donut Dragon(that's something I never thought I'd have to say) has eggs that are rice balls, perfect reference to the pokemon anime.
I ADORE K'noggin's shiny, it's amazing the blending of the colors and the body shapes. Your artwork is always phenomenal and this'll be extra fun to watch over august.
Maybe the Pokémon can still be dessert themed. Just brighten K'noggin's colors, and you got yourself a Rock Candy Dragon, instead being a Rock-Fairy Type.
Yes I love this so much seeing all the designs and rendering styles that change every theme and your smaugust dragons gave me motivation to work hard at rendering different textures
4:17 I know that this is entirely because I watched lots of Strawberry Shortcake when I was younger, but when I saw the blueberry muffin prompt, I immediately thought of a wise, intelligent, and maybe secluded dragon. Instead, you gave me a physically strong but derpy one. This is not a complaint. I love your design.
Loving the textures on the first four dragons, Jack! They came out looking so fun and delicious! I also need K'Noggin to be real (great name btw!!!!!!!!!!!!!) ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love the style of the dragons, they really do well to convey that the are base on food. Also I like the Pokémon reference with those jelly donut dragon eggs
Please do a golden eagle based Pokemon. I know I keep on asking but I can't help it. It's on the Mexican flag and you are basing the region on Mexico. Added: Okay so taking a second look at the silhouette of the legendary Pokemon debuting in the last week of Smaugust I'm getting the feeling that it be a golden eagle/dragon Pokemon. If so then I think the golden eagle Pokemon should be a mythical Pokemon that guides the player/MC. Which is fitting since the Aztecs travelled constantly until they saw the eagle on a cactus with a snake in it's talons and took it as a sign from the gods to build their new home where they stood.
@@brag363 But that's more of a bald eagle with Native American vibe. It feels kind of cheap to give it a Mazah form to fill the golden eagle spot. And while I do love Braivary, as a Mexican I would rather see them create a new Pokemon.
13:22 I think it was either the Aztecs or Mayans that took the shards of the that stone and embedded it into a wooden club. You see it used in the movie Road to El Dorado during that one song but it was being used to bust out a watermelon. And it seems that the final evo of Knogging will either have a nose like that or a weapon.
Dragons are the magical creature equivilent to pizza. Of course there are some basics about it, crust, sauce, toppings and more. You can change and redesign it to fit whatever you want, you can even change the basics of it if you feel adventurous or competent enought to tackle it. You can change a lot about a pizza, Its style, its approach, its makeup and ingredients. Even if you have two pizzas that almost have nothing in common, you can still recognize that those two dishes are pizza, dragons are no different. Thats why I love both. *TL;DR: Dragons are like pizza*
Rock types are so underrated, please make more!! Preferably pure rock types too, they always end up looking cool. I feel like mons like Onix didn’t need the earth-typing, and would be more flavourful as a pure rock type.
You should also start doing dinovember, where it's a drawing challenge but based around dinosaurs. It seems like a lot of lists are specific genera instead of just prompts that look like dinosaurs, but it'd be fun to see on your channel. Maybe a story could be related to some kind of jurassic park styled zoo?
The bussines expense joke made me crack genius and lovely dragons! My favorite Pokémon is appletun and I was so excited when smaugusts theme was dessert dragons
i really love the sketchy nature of these pieces! obviously your fully rendered art is incredible but seeing the looseness and fun in the sketches is really cool too
I love your Mazah region stuff but I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE to see more videos like these! Hearing how happy you were and your creative process and how loose you were with your art was just inspiring to watch.
Omg these look so cute! I especially adore the lil macaron dragons, I actually made some before during my hs shop class, definitely takes a lot of effort to get the shells to not crack, lol Can't wait to see the next batch of dragons, keep up the amazing work!
I actually just finished rewatching Smaugust 2021 (and all your other Mazah Region on content) at the start of the month, so I'm pretty hyped for this!
I absolutely love the idea to combine desserts and dragons. It’s so whimsical and charming!! As cool and badass big scary dragons are, I really have such a soft spot for goofy Dragon Tales/stuffed animal dragon designs.
this may the most wholesome series you’ve created yet! You have such passion for everything you do and the creative process of your designs never fail to fascinate me. Keep up the amazing work!
This year’s prompt has been an extra challenge and I’m loving it! I don’t have much experience in making food creatures so it’s been fun learning how to make them work.
A lot of these drawing challenges have been dark, scary, or ominous. I’m enjoying this change of pace. Everything this month is so colorful and sweet and happy-go-lucky!
Something about the anatomy of the jellyfish dragon heavily reminds me of pukei-pukei from monster hunter. Physionomy and posture, and its big head with long slimy tongue. Nice work i really like this one.
I don't know why, but this years subtheme of desserts makes me so happy. Maybe it's the subversion of almighty powerful dragons, who knows, but all I know is that this month is going to be great because of it. Also, I like the direction of K'noggin and its line. I see what looks like an obsidian axe in the second stage and a mahaquitl for the final. So exciting!
Hey man not to be dramatic but I'm beyond obsessed with your dragons this year. These are, quite genuinely, some of the most appealing and delightful designs ever created by human hands. If there's any way I could convince you to fund a book, hardcover or paperback, containing the complete set once they're all out, I would. Maybe I'm just a bit beastiary crazy, but I would adore being able to pick up a book and look at that jelly donut sweetie when I'm feeling blue. You have created joy in my heart, thank you for making these
Okay, hear me out: bear claw dragon plushie. Because that cute, chonky dude looks like he'd make a perfect huggable friend to me...and I would totally buy one.
Seeing what you are able to create by yourself, and what the actual company creates for the new games, makes me wonder where the pokemon franchise would be right now if they had you. Honestly, it's amazing!
I absolutely love the idea for smaugust. I feel like the monthly challenges tend to feature pretty Grimm, dark designs but desserts are a great way to keep the art style more easygoing. The macaron dragons are my favorite because I like how you have each one a different personality, I imagine this could extend to have a whole collection of 20 or so unique variations of them.
I can already see the silhouette of a macuahuitl in the last evolution of K’noggin, so cool. I’m from Mexico and also an artist so it’s very exciting to see how other artists take inspiration and depict elements of your culture. You’ve been doing an amazing job, keep up the good work 💯
I love the idea these dragons were made by a baker who brought them to life with their magic, like the gingerbread men, except the baker didn't want to eat them. Maybe they did who knows. Maybe the baker has a giant garden for all the desert dragons to roam. These designs are amazing! I love how some look adorable yet still fierce. I would want to own them.
This might sound a bit strange, but I appreciate how "feel-good" this video is. The music, summer stories and dessert theme made for a very pleasant and relaxing time. Banger video, as always.
Im in love with the sweet dragon concept for this month! Its a fun change of pace from the serious lore heavy challenges you've been doing, I cant wait to see more this month!
For the knoggin line, you could spin off to a separate evolution for those that dulled their blade too young, like they evolve or maybe just become a split evolution for a club line or something
These are really great! I appreciate that you are leaning more into the dragon aspect as it keeps me from the dilemma of friend or food. I'm liking K'noggin and the potential it has. Looking forward to seeing it's next forms and if it will get a second typing or not.
These designs remind me so much of the game Candy Land. I can see a Candy Land character running into these dragons while traversing across the sugar filled land
Well, I'm looking forward both to any of your new designs - Pokémon or not - and you rekindling my own creativity again just like you did last year. I definitely don't really have the time to do an art challenge this year, just because my work load is ridiculous right now and we adopted a new puppy into our family like 1 and a half months ago - but I'm looking forward to squeezing some creative me time in in the days and weeks to come 🥰
I really want to do Smaugust this year. Your Kaijune drawings were beautiful (Yosemite and Sweet Tooth were my personal favourites) and last Smaugust was a blast. Unfortunately I am in my first year of my uni illustration/animation course, which takes first priority. I may however design a single dragon themed after my OWN favourite dessert, Churros and Ice-cream which you yourself have on your list. Can't wait to see more from you.
the more sketchy line work looks great, really gives it a softer feeling, great for deserts! these all look very tasty also really hope thats a macuahuitl on the final rock evo 👀
