10-Day Beginner Tattoo Course
Go from complete beginner to tattooing a live model in ten days. Our most complete course, taught in small groups in central Birmingham.
£1,899 from
West Midlands
Want to learn to tattoo but based in Coventry? Train at Birmingham Tattoo College, an accredited college that is an easy trip from Coventry. Small classes, real skin and live models, and a diploma to take anywhere.
Learning to tattoo from Coventry
Coventry has fast, frequent trains into Birmingham New Street, so real, structured tattoo training is well within reach. Birmingham Tattoo College teaches in small, supervised groups with tutors who tattoo for a living.
Students travel to us from across Coventry and nearby, from Bedworth and Kenilworth to Balsall Common and Binley. You can take the full 10-day diploma or a short fine line course and be home the same evening.
Getting here
around 20 minutes by fast train from Coventry into Birmingham New Street. Birmingham New Street is one of Birmingham's best-connected stations and the studio is a few minutes away.
about 35-50 minutes by road via the M6 or A45 depending on traffic. In practice the Metro or a train is usually faster than driving into Birmingham.
regular bus and coach routes connect Coventry with Birmingham city centre, dropping you close to the studio.
Coventry has quick enough rail links that most students commute in for the day; for the 10-day course, some prefer to arrange a short stay, and we can help you plan either way.
Find us
Birmingham Tattoo College
Cambridge Street
Birmingham, B1 2NP
The studio is on Cambridge Street in central Birmingham (B1 2NP), by Centenary Square and Brindleyplace; a few minutes from Birmingham New Street, with West Midlands Metro tram stops nearby, and well served by local rail and city bus routes. We send full arrival directions when you book.
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Every course is open to students travelling from Coventry and across West Midlands.
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Why make the trip
We cap every course at a handful of students so a tutor watches your work, not a lecture hall. You get real bench time, not a seat at the back.
Artificial skin is where you start, not where you finish. Every course ends with a supervised tattoo on a live model, because that is the only way to be ready.
Your tutors tattoo professionally. You learn how the craft actually works today, from technique to how a studio really runs.
Cross-contamination control and blood-borne pathogen safety run through every course, to the standards UK studios and clients expect.
You finish with a Birmingham Tattoo College diploma and a folder of supervised work you can put in front of any studio.
Your questions do not stop on the last day. We help with your portfolio, finding work, and the steps to setting up on your own.
We regularly welcome students from across West Midlands, including Bedworth, Kenilworth, Balsall Common, Binley, Longford, Tile Hill.
Reviews
I started the 10-day course never having held a machine and tattooed a live model by the end. The small group meant the tutor actually watched every line I did.
The 4-day fine line course was exactly what I wanted. I came out able to hold a clean single-needle line and I've been building a fine-line portfolio since.
I run a microblading studio and the 2-day course let me add fine-line tattoos to my services in a weekend. It assumed I already knew skin and hygiene, which saved so much time.
Genuinely the most professional training I looked at in Birmingham. Real bench time, real feedback, and the hygiene side was taken seriously from day one. Worth every penny.
Travelled in from Brighton for the beginner diploma and it was completely worth the trip. Small class, patient tutors, and I left with a portfolio I could actually show studios.
I'd done an online course before and learned almost nothing. This was the opposite. Hands on machines from the first morning, corrected in real time. I finally feel ready to guest.
The hygiene and blood-borne pathogen side was covered properly, which is exactly what studios asked me about at interview. I walked in with a certificate and a portfolio and got the spot.
The small group meant I never felt lost or rushed. The tutors are working artists so the feedback is honest and current, not something read off a slide. Best decision I've made for my career.
As an SPMU artist the 2-day course was perfect. Focused, no filler, and it respected what I already knew. I was offering fine-line tattoos to my clients the following week.
Questions
If you are travelling from Coventry and want to check dates, plan your stay, or ask about a course, we are happy to help. Read our FAQs or get in touch and we will reply within one working day. You can also see all the places we welcome students from on our locations page.