✦ Blue Belt - PRE-APPRENTICE / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Dojo Ink
- 4 days ago
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Updated: 4 hours ago
Skill. Strategy. Confidence. This is where you become shop-ready.
Blue Belt is the bridge between student and artist.This level is designed to refine your execution, strengthen your artistic identity, and prepare you for real clients, real sessions, and real shop expectations.
If Yellow Belt built your technique and Green Belt built your style…
Blue Belt builds your professionalism.
This is where you become the artist people trust.
⭐ WHO BLUE BELT IS FOR
This level is ideal for artists who:
Can execute clean small-to-medium tattoos
Understand linework, shading, and placement
Are ready for real-client training
Want to build a professional portfolio
Need guidance with workflow, prep, and real-time decision making
Are preparing to enter a shop or begin an apprenticeship
By the time you complete Blue Belt, you should feel confident tattooing solo under guidance.
⭐ WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Blue Belt focuses on advanced execution, polished flow, and professional practice.
🞂 Professional Tattoo Workflow (Start → Finish)
Client communication + consent forms
Stencil application on real skin
Balancing time, technique, and comfort
Reading skin, adjusting pressure mid-tattoo
Clean, efficient setup + teardown
🞂 Advanced Linework & Shading
Line weight variation
Smooth whip + pendulum shading
Gradient building
Solving mid-tattoo issues (blowouts, oversaturation, dry skin)
🞂 Placement Mastery
Body flow for medium/large pieces
Tattooing tough areas (ankle, wrist, collarbone, sternum)
Adjusting designs to fit anatomy
🞂 Design Expansion
Medium-scale floral compositions
Layering leaves, petals, and elements
Clean transitions + directional flow
🞂 Tattooing Real Clients
You will:
tattoo supervised models
receive live technique feedback
learn corrections + decision making
practice confident execution
🞂 Professional Skills
Pricing your work
Client boundaries + etiquette
Booking systems
Social media presence
Brand-building basics
Blue Belt turns technique into professional habits.
⭐ WHAT YOU GET
✔ Full Blue Belt Training Modules
Video lessons, demonstrations, and real-time tattoo walkthroughs.
✔ Real Client Practice (if in apprenticeship)
Guided sessions with corrective instruction.
✔ Tattoo Design Templates
Medium floral layouts + composition exercises.
✔ Portfolio Review + Direction
Refinement, sequencing, and what shops look for.
✔ Belt Advancement Assessment
Once you show consistency and professionalism, you move to Black Belt.
⭐ TIMELINE
4 weeks(based on 2–3 real client tattoos + technique assignments)
This month focuses on execution speed, consistency, client communication, and confident workflow.
Green Belt → Blue Belt is the turning point where you become a functioning tattoo artist.
⭐ SUPPLIES NEEDED
Liner + shader machines
3RL, 5RL, 7RL, 9RL cartridges
Mag needles (7M, 9M, 11M recommended)
High-quality black ink
Stencil paper + stencil primer
Studio-level sanitation supplies
Client aftercare kits (optional)
⭐ PRICE
$1,000–$1,500 (or 2–3 payments available)
Included in the Full Dojo Ink 6-Month Apprenticeship Path.
You’ve built technique. You’ve found your style. Now you refine your artistry and step into your role as a professional.
Enter the next stage of your tattoo journey.
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