TattooMed Academy: Continuing Education for Tattoo Artists

TattooMed is best known in the tattoo industry for its aftercare products. During the COVID 19 pandemic, the team behind TattooMed launched the TattooMed Academy for and with tattoo artists. The online platform offers continuing education and courses for tattoo artists and studios. The topics and course formats vary depending on the program: Some courses are free, while others are paid and may include certificates.

This article looks at the topics covered by the Academy and why continuing education plays an important role in the tattoo industry.

What the TattooMed Academy is

The TattooMed Academy is an e-learning platform with courses and trainings around tattooing and everyday studio life.

Depending on the course, topics range from tattoo care and product application to hygiene, disinfection and wound care. Some trainings were developed together with specialists and are aimed specifically at tattoo artists and studio owners.

The offering isn’t entirely free: alongside free courses there are also paid trainings. These include, among others, advanced courses on hygiene, disinfection and wound care. The free TattooMed Expert Course, for example, covers the correct application of TattooMed products and can be completed with a certificate of participation.

Why continuing education matters so much in tattooing

Tattooing is a craft in which continuing education plays a central role. How well someone works depends not only on who they learned from, but also on whether they’re willing to keep developing.

Techniques change. Machines, needles and materials evolve. At the same time, the knowledge about topics like skin, wound healing, hygiene and aftercare keeps growing. Anyone who works for years only the way they once learned it eventually risks being stuck with yesterday’s knowledge.

Continuing education doesn’t mean every artist has to adopt every new technique. It’s about understanding developments, regularly questioning existing ways of working, and being able to consciously decide what makes sense for your own work.

For you as a client, this is actually a good selection criterion: an artist who keeps learning, engages with skin, healing and aftercare, and speaks openly about the limits of what’s possible is usually a better choice than someone who hasn’t questioned their way of working in years.

Education is more than courses

An academy or a seminar can teach a lot, but it doesn’t replace everyday experience.

Especially in tattooing, you constantly learn through exchange with other artists. Different ways of working, machines, needle configurations, styles and approaches make you look at your own work from a new perspective again and again.

That’s exactly why we find offerings like the TattooMed Academy interesting: they make knowledge accessible and offer a structured way to engage more deeply with certain topics. At the same time, personal exchange with other artists remains at least as important.

Where we stand

At True Canvas, development is part of who we are.

With over 250 international guest artists a year, we constantly experience different ways of working, styles and approaches. Every guest brings experience from other studios, cities and tattoo scenes. Not every technique automatically fits your own way of working, but exactly this exchange keeps you open and makes you question your own work regularly.

For us, education therefore happens on several levels: through structured trainings, through our own experience, and through exchange with other artists.

If you tattoo yourself and want to keep learning, the TattooMed Academy is worth a look. There you’ll find the currently available courses and can decide for yourself which topics are relevant for your work.

And if you’d like to experience the exchange live: there’s always something happening at our studio. Take a look at our team an our guest artists.