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Dotwork

2025·Self-paced·With Big Dave

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Dot by dot. Never whip shaded.

Big Dave does not fake dotwork with a gradient. Plenty of artists drop the voltage, whip shade a section and call it dotwork. He tried that and threw it out, because it reads as shading. This is the long way, done properly: designing the mandala on an iPad, the trick that makes one mandala look like it has more layers underneath, a stencil you get for free while you draw, then dot by dot on skin at 8 volts, with the empty skin left doing half the work.

What's included

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Course details

Mentor: Big Dave
Release: 2025
Level: All levels
Format: Pre-recorded, self-paced
Audio
Subtitles
Access: Lifetime, on any device

What's inside the course

The exact process, broken down step by step. No theory without application, only what works on skin.

The mandala, from the centre out

Drawn live in Amaziograph. Eight layers, black background, white lines, and what to do when it starts looking too round.

The layers illusion

A grey pass over the white lines, then erase the excess. One mandala that reads like it has more sitting underneath it.

A stencil for free

Draw at brush size 4 and the stencil is already done. Thicker lines hide your dots and you cannot tell if one landed.

Dot by dot, not whip shaded

Drop the voltage and whip it and you get shading, not dotwork. He learned that the long way. 8 volts, one dot at a time.

The empty skin does half the work

Overfill a section and it heals faded and flat. Knowing where to stop is the whole craft.

Why a 5.0 stroke

A longer, harder hit lands a dot that is still sharp once it heals. A low stroke buries it smooth, and that is not the finish he wants.

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This is what you'll be able to do

Real healed dotwork from Big Dave. Clean lines, bold patterns, geometric work that holds up over time.

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What artists say

No fluff, just real technique you can apply immediately.

I knew I had made the right choice already, just 10 minutes into the course! Thank you, it was a huge inspiration boost. Can't wait to apply all the great advice.

Tony Ink@tony_inkk

What sold me is how straight to the point everything is. No filler, no forty-minute intros, just the technique and the reasoning behind it. I was applying things in my studio the same week.

Tiago Salgado@tiagosalgado.tattooer

Buy it once and it is yours for good. I go back to the same lessons every few weeks and still catch details I missed the first time. That alone pays for it.

Diogo Pereira@diogo_tattooartist

These guys actually open the playbook. Most artists hide what took them years to learn. InkMentors does the opposite, and it shows in how fast you start improving.

Ian Fleming@inkbyianfleming

I watch on my phone between clients and on the iPad at home, same login, everything synced. Being able to learn on my own schedule changed how much I actually get through.

Chris Myers@chrisraymyerstats

No theory for the sake of it. Everything is what actually works on skin, and you can tell it comes from real experience. My healed work looks cleaner than it ever did.

Kiko Gaspar@kiko_tattooartist

Honestly the best money I have put into my craft. Clear, practical, and full of things I would never have figured out on my own. I recommend it to anyone serious about leveling up.

Victor Armero@victor_armero

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The answers to what most artists ask before they buy.

Recorded! Every lesson is pre-recorded in full HD studio quality, so you watch whenever works for you: pause, rewind, rewatch the tricky parts as many times as you need. No fixed schedule to worry about.

Yes! Once you finish the course, your certificate shows up ready to download, so you can share it with clients and studios.

Dotwork is $99, and taxes are already included on our end, so what you see is what you pay. Prefer to split it up? You can do up to 4 installments with Klarna, where available.

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Basically, it means respecting your time. 🧘🏼

Our goal is to build an army of elite artists, so we do not fill the course with hours of filler, long stories, or slow talk just to pad the runtime and say "look, 5 hours of content!"

If you have watched our courses before, you already noticed there is no "umm" or "ahh." Every time we wipe ink off the tattoo, we cut that part out, so you only see what actually matters to learn.

We also assume you already know how to wipe ink and apply butter, so we skip spending course time on that too.

That is it: respect for your time, without cutting corners on the knowledge.

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