Become a Working Tattoo Artist
Without Spending Three Years Sweeping Floors
for a Free Apprenticeship.
For people stuck in a job they hate, sitting on real artistic talent, who want a clear path into tattooing without the guesswork, the begging, or the €4,000 in-person course fee.
16+ years tattooing internationally.
A working studio in Malta.
Students currently building real careers in this craft.
Testimonials
"Scotty has a unique way of teaching his tattooing process. He breaks things down for you in easy to follow chunks. He is a genuine guy who really cares about his craft and the people in it, he only wants whats best for you and tattooing. You can see it in his work and every detail in his studio." - Leon
"Attending the tattoo course at Massa Tattoo Social Club was one of the best decisions I've ever made. I was incredibly happy to find this place. It truly set the foundation for my tattooing journey. Scotty is an amazing teacher: extremely professional, deeply knowledgeable, and geniunely passionate not just about tattooing, but about the entire culture, history and art behind it." - Aga
"Deciding to do the course at MTSC was a big decision for me and I can safely say that I have no regrets. Scotty is a great teacher and breaks down every week into digestable chunks loaded with invaluable information. His passion for the craft and history of tattooing shines through his teachings, backed with an amazing personality. If you are an artist like me that doesn't know where to take your career and you are considering tattooing, I highly recommend this course." - Sergio
You know the feeling. So read these and tell me which ones land:
You’re sitting in a job that bores you to death, knowing full well you could be doing something with the art you’ve spent years quietly getting good at.
You’ve drawn since you were a kid. You’re decent. Maybe better than decent. And not a single hour of your working week uses any of it.
You’ve messaged local tattoo studios about an apprenticeship. Either no reply, or "send us your portfolio" and then silence. Or "come back when you’re better" with zero direction on what better even means.
You’ve bought one of those cheap home kits, watched a few YouTube videos, jabbed at a piece of fake skin and walked away thinking "I have no idea if any of that was right."
You’re tired of waking up on a Sunday already dreading Monday. You don’t want a side hustle. You want a life that actually fits you.
If you nodded at three of those, keep reading. This was built for you.
Why the Usual Routes Don’t Work:
Most people trying to break into tattooing try one of four things. Here’s why they keep hitting a wall:
YouTube and Instagram tutorials. Random 8-minute clips with no order. One artist tells you 3mm depth, the next says 1.5mm. No feedback on what you’re doing. You learn just enough to develop bad habits you’ll have to unlearn later.
Hunting for an in-person apprenticeship. Fewer studios offer them every year. The ones that do often want you working free for 1-3 years, sweeping the floor before you’re allowed near a machine. Some artists are great mentors. Most are too busy with their own clients to actually teach you.
Cheap home kits and fake skin practice. You’ll get the machine running. You won’t know if your lines are inconsistent because of your hand, your needle depth, your speed, or your machine setup. Practice without feedback isn’t practice. It’s just guessing louder.
Generic online art courses. Drawing on paper and tattooing skin are not the same skill. Skin pushes back. Skin heals. A line that looks great on Procreate looks completely different a week after it’s healed.
The Pattern:
All of them skip the fundamentals. They teach you to copy a finished tattoo without understanding why it works. Which is why your work plateaus. This course starts at the other end.
The Method:
1 - You learn the craft, not the copy. Most people try to mimic styles. We break tattooing down into the actual mechanics: how the needle moves through skin, how depth and speed affect saturation, why some lines heal sharp and others blow out. Once you understand the why, you can apply it to any style you want.
2 - Mentorship, not a course you watch alone at midnight. You get direct feedback on your work inside the group. You’re not guessing whether you’re improving. You’re shown.
3 - Built around real life, not a fixed timetable. No flying out somewhere for 3-4 weeks. You go through it on your schedule, at your pace, with the same structure my in-person students follow.
What You Get:
1. The full 9-phase course. Portfolio audit, mindset, setup, core techniques, application, hygiene and safety, putting it all together, structured practice with feedback, and how to actually get into a studio. Same path my in-person students walk, in the same order.
2. Group mentorship. You can ask questions, post your work, and get a direct response. You’re not figuring it out alone in your kitchen.
3. Feedback on your actual tattoos. Submit your fake skin and real work as you progress. I tell you what’s working and what isn’t, with specifics you can act on.
4. The same fundamentals I’ve used for 16+ years. Not theory. Not what sounds good on Instagram. The exact techniques that have kept my work progressing consistently across 16 years and dozens of studios.
Lifetime access. No subscription. No upsells.
What happens when you sign up?
Once you make the decision and pay. There is no call. No application form. No "let’s see if you qualify."
You get instant access to the full course, the group, and new videos of Scotty's tattoo process
uploaded on a regular basis.
You start in week one. Within 3 weeks, if you put the work in, you’ll be tattooing fake skin properly with the right technique and hygiene. Within 90 days, you’ll be producing flash that’s good enough to sell.
I've seen and made every mistake a beginner makes. I built this course specifically to help you avoid the ones that cost time, money and skin.
Teaching the 'WHY.' Helping you understand the physics of tattooing, so you stop copying styles and start mastering the craft.
I’ve spent years refining how to explain the 'unexplainable' parts of tattooing to my in-person students. This digital course is that exact framework, recorded and structured for you.
I started tattooing the wrong way. Copying designs off Pinterest. Guessing at depth. Making something that looked decent one day and a mess the next, with no idea why.
I worked in studios across the world. Got mixed advice from every artist I asked. Spent years on trial and error that cost me time, money, and confidence in front of clients.
The thing that flipped it: I realised I wasn’t actually learning the craft. I was copying it. I could make a tattoo look good sometimes. I couldn’t tell you why it worked or repeat it on demand.
So I went back to fundamentals. How the needle interacts with skin. How depth, speed and angle change the result. Once I understood the mechanics, everything became repeatable. I could take any style and apply the same principles.
That’s what I teach now.
I'm not the most followed tattoo artist on Instagram. I'm not going to promise you a six-figure year. I run a working studio, I tattoo full-time, and I've taught students who are tattooing professionally now and others still building their careers. I'll be honest with you about the work it takes and the time it really costs. If you're willing to put that in, I can show you the path I wish someone had shown me.
THE PRICE
One time price
for lifetime access
$497
One-off, lifetime access
Full 9-phase course
Every new module I add forever
Community access and direct feedback from me on your work
7-day refund guarantee
For context: My in-person course in Malta runs three weeks full-time and costs €4,000 a seat. I take it slow, usually one person at a time. The Social Club is the same path, the same techniques, the same person teaching, just made accessible if you can't fly to Malta.
You give up the studio time and the face-to-face. You keep the path.
7 DAY PHASE-1 GUARANTEE
Try it for 7 days. Go through the first few modules. If you don’t think it’s worth what you paid, email me and I’ll refund you in full. No forms, no interview, no hard feelings. The only condition: you actually have to start. I’m not refunding people who paid and never logged in.
$497
Lifetime access. 7 Day guarantee. Instant start.