“The Pokemon won’t necessarily follow the prompt of Just Deserts” Ok but hear me out… *rock candy*

Oh the rice balls as jelly donut eggs. That’s a clever reference Jack.

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 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.

Thank you so much for including the REAL "Jelly Donuts" XD Obsolutely loving this year's smaugust so far, they're all super adorable and tasty-looking

Whenever Jack does an Art Challenge for the Month, he somehow makes the month go faster...

Now the real question, would the Jelly Doughnut dragon use a frying pan as a drying pan?

The idea of a bear dragon is beautiful, I actually did something like that for a fakemon starter of a region I’ve been making for a year now

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.

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.

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.

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

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 this new loose style, really captures the vibe of an old recipe book and your jelly donut dragon already has my heart!

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.

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*

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

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?

I have a feeling you're gonna be making me hungry all month with these dragons 🤤

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.

the "jelly donut" joke just made me so happy

anyone else think when he said jelly donut he was going to make a riceball dragon as a reference to brock’s “ jelly donuts”

1:41 me too! smaugust also happens to also be one of my favorite monthly art challenges. i really love all the paistry dragons you did.

I hadn’t noticed all the dragons were dessert themed right up until the macaroon dragons, what a sweet surprise… haha

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

The idea of Jack buying 2 bags full of macarons with the excuse of using them as reference is an image I cannot get out of my mind

It’s everyone’s favourite time of year again!

Honestly, the bear claw dragon really reminds me of Quetzal from Dragon Tales.

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.

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!

As a Baker....I'm mighty excited and help but drool and adore these amazing designs!

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 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!

I can already see the final evolution has an aztec sword from the silhouette. can't wait

these look AMAZING! I appreciate the new brushes and love every single design.

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.

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

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'm super excited for smaugust!! I adore dragons so much and your designs always make my heart happy!

That Jelly Donut Dragon is great, and I love the reference to Brock's "Jelly Donut" Rice Balls in the Eggs.

I'm literally so in love with these designs, and the Macaron dragon buddies are adorable as all heck🥺

"These doughnuts are great! Jelly filled are my favourite! Nothing beats a jelly filled doughnut!"

YES. FOOD THEMED ANIMAL DESIGNS ARE MY FAVORITE THING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. THIS SMAUGUST FEELS LIKE IT WAS CATERED DIRECTLY TO ME.

The blue macaroon dragon is a mood-

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.

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.

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.

I nearly spit out my drink the moment I saw & heard "a different kind of jelly-donut" XD priceless

All the dragon designs look so precious I want to give them a hug

I think this is one of my favorite monthly drawings so far, these are so fun!

Sweet/Pastry/Dessert inspired character designs are one of my favourite things! and I love dragons so this is a win-win!

This is what I call the perfect KZfaq channel

All of the background songs brought back so many memories and nostalgia. Reminds me so much of my first Pokémon playthrough♡

the pink macaroon dragon with the pompadour is my SOUL lmaoooo ,>w

The new brushes really sell the warm, puffy look of a fresh baked pastry.

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!

Absolutely floored. Incredibly fun to watch and the dragons look so great! I love the jelly filled guy the most.

This entire video is literally so delightful. I feel so chillax and happy rn. Thank you for desert dragons!

The new sketching with this brush goes so hard, I hope you do more illustrations with it in the future

the Jelly Donut dragon has a lot of physical similarities to Pukei-Pukei from Monster Hunter - and i already love that lol

“Oh boy, these donuts are great, jelly-filled are my favorite!”

The pastry dragons look so soft and pleasant! The whole feeling reminds me of the sweets shops on Disneyland’s Main Street! Flint knapping is an interesting process and I’m glad your making a ‘mon based on it. Depending on how you hit the stone, you can get different angles and shapes out of the rock. You can also use antlers instead of hammering stones so maybe a different Pokémon with antlers would come into contact with them and they compete for territory? Then again, I don’t know how well this process works with volcanic rock??

I adored the Smaugust you did last year, so excited to see these new designs

the blueberry muffin pokemon is my favorite, I love the mouth/neck detail. so damn clever!

The Bear Claw looks like they belong in Dragon Tales and I love it. Peak design right there, well done

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!

I love how jack picked a dessert theme for Smagust and just a couple videos earlier he mad a giant dessert dinosaur kaiju xD

Your bearclaw dragon looks so huggable!! I bet they smell so yummy, they also seem like the kinda dragon to just chill with you. I can't get over how sweet and chubby it looks!

I love the muffin boy Literally a personality of cupcake and a dog looks like it

14:30 yooo the final evolution has the funny Mayan sword/bat thingie

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

Both desserts and dragons can be simple or over the top! Love this so much!

for the sponsor bit reminded me of when tv shows say "brought you to by viewers, like you!"

So, that final form has a Machuahuitl as a weapon, right? Cause that that's definitely what it looks like

The onigiri reference with the jelly donut eggs killed me

These designs are really good, I also quite like that you talk about the design instead of the lore voiceover.

Welcome back to Smaugust!!!!!!!🐉🐉 Last year was great! Let’s have an even sweeter Smaugust Month!!!🧁🍬🍰

Ima watch the whole thing Edit : watched the whole thing, didnt even skip 10 seconds. I love the theme and the ideas, my favorite of your drawings was Bear Claw, He/she just seems like such a lax goof, I wasnt even aware that Bear Claws even existed as a Dessert! Now I feel like like loading myself of on pasteries and Desserts, I really wanna taste that last desighn, K'noggin had my mouth watering😋

I bloody love this. just the idea of desert based dragons are adorable.

This is my favorite drawing challenge so far! My favorite things combined: deserts and dragons!

The first Blueberry one looks strikingly like Dodogama, and I love it.

My birthday was yesterday and that's the pleasant surprise i wanted. I loved 2021's Smaugust. Thanks!

I love that they are all dessert themed

I love your craft, it brings a smile to my day. Honestly if there was a meet and greet I’d love to swing by.

Desserts and DRAGONS???!!!?? A theme after my own heart. I’m definitely looking forward to the rest of this August.

I love bear claws. Whenever my folks would go to town and get donuts I’d always say “I’ll take a bear claw” even to this day I still truly enjoy bear claws.

My immediate thought with this prompt is that these dragons all work together in one way or another to run a big bakery.

absolutely loved all the designs in this video! can't wait for more smaugust videos

great art this week, as usual. the dragons are so cuteee and the pokemon is so well-designed. keep it up, jack!

Bear claw for me has always been a simple bear paw shaped molasses cookie, I want to see this kind of bear claw too! I really like how they look like creatures first, and sweets second!

These prompts are amazing! These drawings just bring me so much joy and happiness, and now I not only crave each dessert, but next weeks video too!

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!

Oh frick, I'm early. THIS! IS! SMAUGUST!!! -I'll try to keep this short, cus I've been actively following your progress over on Instagram and have created some sweet dragons of my own! The dragons are really cute and I love how much more experimental you were with your brushes! -A new Rock type! K'noggin reminds me a lot of a sawshark line that I made in 2012 and repurposed for my region. Looking at it's teased evolutions gives me that same vibe. I'm looking forward to using it on my Mazah team and seeing it evolve as Smaugust continues! ^_^

Best pokemon designer there is. I'm always impressed by your work man! Little knife dino, so freakin cool!!

Whenever you do these monthly challenges I love to wait until the final part is uploaded so I can watch it all in one go.

I love turning the dragon concept in its head by combining it with pastries

I love these monthly art challenge videos of yours so much