Dot shading?

Lately I have noticed a severe increase in dot shading artwork, Painfully I admit that I actually didn't notice the dot shading technique until about a month ago. Now that I have, It's all I find myself researching and trying to replicate myself.

Has this technique always been popular or is it recently becoming the new cool? (Trendy, hipster, scene, Zack Morris.. What ever you want to call it.)

Anyway... the reason why I am making this post was to shed light on a very impressive tattoo artist by the name of Mike Adams. After discovering his dot shading techniques I began to search all over the web for other types of artwork not just traditional/new school tattoo flash, and there's a whole world of art out there that I just hadn't laid my eyes upon.

If you have stumbled across this in the hope to see some dot shading , I am going to start you off where I began...

All hail Mike Adams (New York Tattoo Artist)