Jazza (YouTuber) Biography

Jazza, whose real name is Josiah Aan Brooks, is an Australian YouTuber, artist, animator, and presenter. He, most notably, hosts the YouTube channel called Draw With Jazza where he provides art tutorials and challenges. As of March 2019, ‘Draw With Jazza’ has over 4.3 million subscribers and 630 million total video views. Beside ‘Draw With Jazza’ he also owns the channel ‘Daily Jazza’ with 360,000+ subscribers.

Jazza (YouTuber) Age

Jazza was born on the 20th of April 1989 in Victoria, the second most-populated state in Australia. He started practicing art when he was 12 years old. In those times, he created his stage name, Jazza, and used that for his Hotmail account. While in high school, he used Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Flash to Animate during his breaks.

Jazza (YouTuber) Family

He was born the 5th out of 6 children in a Latter Day Saint Family. Later, when he was 21, he would leave the church as he no longer agreed with its principles. His only known relative is his brother Shad M. Brooks, also a YouTuber. His brother makes videos on medieval fantasy items on his channel named Shadiversity. They have been regularly seen collaborating in a couple of videos.

Wife and Children

Josiah is married to Kate Brooks, a teacher. The couple got married in 2014 and have together ever since. As of 2019, the couple has two children, a son born in 2015, and a daughter born in 2018.

Jazza (YouTuber) Career

At age 17, in 2006, he started getting freelance jobs as well as sponsorships. This was just after he completed his high school studies and thus he ventured into video game animation creation. His animations were created using Adobe Flash. In 2011, he realized that the era of Adobe Flash was declining just after the start of the iPhone era. He combed through his own channel and discovered that the most views he got were from his art tutorials. The year after, he created ‘Draw With Jazza’ and started giving art tutorials starting with human anatomy.

His tutorials have garnered success in views and have also attracted people to his freelance animation business. In his channel, he also includes character designs, speed painting, and art competitions. In addition, he has also done some occasional reviews of various art software and equipment. He has a secondary channel named ‘Daily Jazza’. There, he talks with his community about major events occurring in his life. He also gives behind-the-scenes looks into his projects.

Apart from these two, he also has the channels It’s Tabletop Time, where he plays role-playing games with his friends, where he releases cool animated shorts, and JosiahBrooksMusic, for his original music videos.

Josiah Brooks AKA Jazza

He has a cartoon and comic book-like art style. One of his biggest influences in the art industry is Christopher Hart, an artist who has written several how-to-draw books. Later, he helped Hart in developing his own YouTube Channel. His other art influencers are like Adam Phillips, Bernard Derriman, James Farr, James Lee, and Johnny Utah. In 2014 when his channel got 100,000, he decided to stop looking at it as a side hustle and go into it full-time.

He got sponsorship from the CEO of Newgrounds to help him in his venture. In 2015, he got AU$ 100,000 from Google and Screen Australia as part of the Skip Ahead initiative program. Sometime later, he got the chance to join other YouTubers in Los Angeles to work at YouTube space. Together, they produced a series of short films titled “The Tale Teller”. In 2016, he was part of the Adobe Systems’ Twitch stream session on “Building Flexible Animation”. A while later, he published the book Draw With Jazza – Creating Characters: Fun and Easy Guide to Drawing Cartoons and Comics.

He also had a series of shorts called Cartoon It Up which was televised on ABC Me and made available on its video watching app. In 2018, he designed the April Fools Day logo “Googz” for Google Australia. In addition to all his other works, he is also a regular at conventions such as PAX, VidCon Australia, and Comic-Con.

Jazza (YouTuber) Works

Books

• Draw With Jazza – Creating Characters: Fun and Easy Guide to Drawing Cartoons and Comics (2016)

Other works

• Cartoon It Up – 2016 television series shorts broadcast on ABC Me and ABC iview.
• Jazza’s Arty Games – phone and computer application
• Stand out and make money on YouTube! – online course on Skillshare
• How to Talk and Present to Camera like a Pro! – online course on Skillshare
• Jazza’s Coloring eBook! – a digital coloring book (2017)

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