Another word for self-taught

It's no secret that a lot of tattoo artists were self-taught at the start of their careers.

It concludes with profiles of five major figures in the writing of science and two appendices, one of notes from a science-fiction writing workshop and the other a syllabus for a self-taught course in how to write a science-fiction story.

But Vuk Stefanovich Karajich, a self-taught writer, proved the fallacy of that assumption.

She is mainly self-taught, with a little formal training.

He received a desultory education, and was largely self-taught.