Josiah Alan Brooks (born 20 April 1989), known online by the mononym Jazza, is an Australian YouTuber, artist, animator, and presenter best known for his "quirky" art tutorials, humorous challenges, and detailed animations. , his five YouTube channels have collectively reached a large milestone of over billion total video views and million subscribers. Career Brooks was born as the fifth of six children. He grew up in Victoria, Australia. At 12 years old he became interested in art/sketches/drawings, and began practicing drawing. He used Jazza as his username and moniker for his Hotmail account. During high school, he began drawing and animating in Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Flash. He said he would look forward to spending time in the school library or lunch period where he could draw and create his own realities. In 2006, when he was 17, he started getting sponsorships from websites for animations, and after graduating high school, he got into producing animation and online video games. He had joined Newgrounds in 2003, and submitted his first game there in 2006. The games were developed using Adobe Flash. In 2011, he saw that Flash animations were in decline, around the time of the "iPhone era". He looked at his old YouTube channel and noticed that his art tutorial videos had received the most views. In 2012 he created a new channel which he called Draw with Jazza. He said, "People go online looking for tutorials on how to draw. ... Whenever I looked there was nothing good... they had loud music and voice-overs or were slow and boring." He started with tutorials on drawing the human anatomy. The videos were filmed with a simple webcam and microphone and had minimal editing. His tutorials have garnered success in views and have also attracted people to his freelance animation business. Draw with Jazza videos are uploaded weekly. Often, Josiah's main topics include drawing tutorials, but he also includes character designs, speed painting, and art competitions. He presents "art challenges" of various kinds. He inserts comedic\humorous commentary over his art project videos. He has also reviewed art software and equipment and his secondary channel, Daily Jazza includes daily vlogs where he converses with his community about major events occurring in his life, or behind the scenes looks into his projects. Other channels he has created include It's Tabletop Time, launched in 2015, where he plays role-playing games with his