friends; JazzaStudios, where he releases animated shorts; JosiahBrooksMusic, for his original music videos. He describes his art style as cartoon-like, but has also tried to extend to comic books. His biggest influence was Christopher Hart, an artist who authors many how-to-draw books. He and Hart would later collaborate to manage Hart's YouTube channel. Other influences include Internet animators Adam Phillips, Bernard Derriman, James Farr, James Lee and Johnny Utah. In 2014, his YouTube channel reached 100,000 subscribers. It was at this time he was able to switch to treating it as a business and doing it full-time. He received a sponsorship from the CEO of Newgrounds. In 2015, Google and Screen Australia granted Brooks AU$100,000 as part of their Skip Ahead initiative program. He joined other YouTubers in Los Angeles to work at YouTube Space and produced a series of short films titled The Tale Teller, which was a three-part mini-documentary that follows "an old man who enters a city with nothing to his name but the stories he has spent his life gathering, which he wishes to pass on before he dies." In 2015, Forbes contributor Don Groves reported that Draw with Jazza had 25 million views with 60% in the United States and 20% in Europe. In 2016, Forbes contributor Rob Salkowitz reported that Draw with Jazza had 573 videos, over 45 million views and 658,000 subscribers. In November 2017, Mashable reported that Draw with Jazza had two million subscribers, with 45 percent of them from the US, 12 percent from the UK, 10 from Australia, and some amount from non-English speaking countries and locations such as Germany, the Netherlands, and South America. In 2016, he participated in the Adobe Systems' Twitch stream session on "Building Flexible Animation". 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. He designed the April Fools' Day logo "Googz" for Google Australia in 2018. Brooks regularly attends conventions including PAX, VidCon Australia, and Comic-Con. He says he also outsources some of his work so that other artists can make a living in the same field he does. In 2019, he changed his YouTube username to Jazza to better fit the more varied content that he wished to