Rick Douglas

**Richard Douglas** (born July 20, 1984) is an American artist, businessman, cameraman, and video editor, who is the head editor and quality control for the JStu team. He was also the sole editor for the JStu channel and first permanent team member for the team.

Douglas has been married to his wife, Corina, since 2006, and have been dating since 2001. Together, they have 4 children.

## Personal life

Before joining the JStu team, he owned a business where he raced cars for a living. He shut down airport runways and interstates to turn them into racing events for almost a decade.

While working at the business, he filmed each of the events and while doing that, he realized how expensive it was to hire a professional editor to edit the footage. It was triple the amount to hire an editor as it was to make the footage itself. Eventually though, he got tired of it and decided to do it himself.

### Artist career

His artist journey started when he skipped school and got grounded by his parents as a sophomore in high school. In his room, he had a car magazine and started drawing one of the cars that was on the cover of the magazine. After doing it, he enjoyed it and started drawing more cars.

When he was in church, his mom showed off all of his drawings. Then, people started going up to Rick asking if they can draw someone. At the time, he had never drew a person.

He started learning how to draw, and spent over 2 years working on the eyes. After that, he started working on all of the other features of the human body. Rick quickly realized that he could make a business out of this, because the people that were requesting him to draw them were willing to pay.

Rick started getting a lot of attention in school due to his artistic abilities. A bunch of girls started talking to him and one of the girls is his now-wife, Corina. She had a birthday coming up, and at the time they were already dating. Rick went up to her parents and gave him all sorts of baby photos of Corina. After that, he then drew a baby photo of Corina and she appreciated it a lot. As Rick quotes, "she was way out of my league."

### Joining the team

Justin Stuart and Andrew Scites were chatting with another YouTuber named the Life of Palos. JStu brought up the fact that they were in the market for an editor, and Palos recommended Rick to them as Rick had done some edits with Palos before.

JStu then shot Rick an email, and they were very impressed with what he sent back. They then hired Rick in mid-2019.

From joining the channel until somewhere in between the summer and winter of 2021, he was a video editor on the JStu channel. In the video Overnight Survival Challenge Dollar Store Items Only, the JStu team stated that Rick does not edit the videos anymore, and a text message pops up from Drew Bauer and Matt Alvarado that they had been editing (possibly instead of Rick) for about 7 months. Despite this, Rick will occasionally help out with editing.

## References

1. ↑ Rick Douglas (@itsricktheeditor). Instagram. Retrieved on July 7, 2021.
2. ↑ @jstustudios (July 2, 2021). "MEET THE TEAM - @itsricktheeditor" – via Instagram.
3. ↑ Laugh Daily Podcast (December 13, 2020). "OUR FIRST EMPLOYEE (with Rick the Editor) - Podcast Ep. 7" – via YouTube. Retrieved July 11, 2021.
4. ↑ JStu (January 4, 2022). "Overnight Survival Challenge Dollar Store Items Only" – via YouTube. Event occurs at 6:03. Retrieved January 8, 2022.