


“I was about 12 years old when I started playing around with early versions of Photoshop and Flash, and I got my first drawing tablet at 13.”Īsk any digital artist worth their salt and they’ll all tell you that they use a tablet. I was sometimes quite lonely at school and I was bullied a bit when I started high school, so at lunchtimes I would often sit by myself and draw.”Īnd, as the requisite tech evolved, it was around that age that Jazza first took his drawings from the page to computer screen. “Art has been my escape, my way to tell stories and create characters, ever since I was a child. “I’ve always been into drawing,” Jazza says. How can you get started scribbling in the digital arena, and could it end up paying the bills? Here’s how Jazza made that dream a reality… From paper, to tablets, to VR… In this first edition we’re looking at digital art, and to do that we’ve caught up with Josiah Brooks, the man behind the wildly successful YouTube channel ‘ Draw With Jazza‘. That’s the thinking behind our brand new ‘Get Started With…’ series, which aims to shine a light on a tech hobby through the lens of an established expert in the field. If you want to learn something, learn from the best. In the first in our new 'Get Started With.' series we're looking at how you can crack into the world of digital art.
