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This season on Ink Master, it's Shop Wars.

On the last episode, nine pairs of artists from shops all across America arrived ready

to battle it out.

The last shop standing will win $200,000 and the first ever title of Master Shop.

This is no longer a solo sport.

Teamwork was immediately put to the test with a series of intense flash challenges.

We expect to see more than what we're used to.

Two heads should work better than one.

What is happening?

Are they trying to kill us?

It's day one.

In the elimination tattoo.

Show me you can draw.

Teams had one last chance for survival.

Lunch time, buddy.

Me and Dave have never tagged team on a tattoo.

I don't want you to go past what we're drawing.

Dave has his style and I have my style.

In The Elimination, The Marked Society, Tri-Cities Tattoo, and Thicker Than Blood were

the bottom three shots.

The Marked Society.

This is the farthest from a realistic alligator ever.

Tri-Cities Tattoo.

Less is not more.

This is a silhouette with some stuff in it.

Thicker Than Blood.

It's completely anatomically impossible.

You're not showing us that you can draw from life.

Thicker Than Blood, the judges have decided we do not have what it takes to be master shot.

Please pack your machines and move out.

Eight shops remain, but only one will earn a $200,000 prize and the

title of master shop.

You guys are awesome catchers, and you guys are

I think everybody sitting in the room is the strongest competitors.

I feel like that.

Maybe we should pull forces for a while.

Yeah, maybe if we help each other and make it to the finale.

Yeah.

And then it's like fair game.

There's three of us.

There's three in the finale.

And then it becomes a real competition.

Exactly.

So we take care of ourselves, let the weak weed themselves out, and then we attack if someone

comes at one of us.

Yeah.

You ask for it.

Yeah.

If one of us tries, we all strive.

Exactly.

That's a big board.

Why is there nine boards and only eight teams?

I feel a twist coming.

Welcome, artists.

You're here to prove that your shop is the best.

Make it to the end, and you'll earn the biggest prize in Ink Master history, $200,000, a feature

in Ink Magazine, and the title of Ink Master.

Yeah.

And your shop will also earn the first ever title of Master Shop.

You survived the first week, but your odds of winning aren't getting any better, at least

not yet.

I wonder what that means.

Every time a shop is eliminated, another shop will enter the competition ready to fight for

the title of master shop.

What?

We just sent someone home, and now someone else comes in?

Of course.

It's like the Hydra.

Every time you cut a head off, another one springs up.

But that's not all.

Come on.

The shops entering the competition will have at least one returning artist who's competed

for the title and failed.

Oh, dude.

What?

These people coming back in have already been here.

They already know the pressure, and that's really intimidating.

The first returning veteran is from Scottsdale, Arizona, and competed in season four.

He's the owner of Old Town, Inc., Bubba Irwin.

Who's that?

Yeah, I never heard of him.

I definitely came underprepared the first time I was here.

You like doing this stuff?

Yeah, it's cool, man.

I've never done one before.

There's no solid color.

There is no straight outline.

Bubba, you look pissed.

I feel like I did a pretty good job.

I just can't figure out what they want.

You have many problems with your outline.

If you give somebody enough rope, they hang themselves.

Bubba, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master.

Getting kicked off here, you can feel sorry for yourself, or you can go home and do the homework,

and that's exactly what I did.

Welcome back, Bubba.

Thank you.

Who'd you bring with you?

I brought a good buddy of mine, DJ Tambi.

He's the most versatile.

He's the best artist I know.

Bubba's asked me to take him under his wing, and I've taught him a lot of things since.

I'm not the artist that sticks to one style.

Every day is something different for me.

Everything we touch, we're going to crush.

Yeah.

Crush every single thing.

DJ and I have known each other for several years.

DJ is an incredible artist, and he's fast, and he's efficient.

We're done.

The two of you should be warned.

This week is designed to put your shop

to the ultimate test.

Each week, everyone will be tested on the skill that exposes the veteran artist's shortcomings

from the last time they competed.

Damn.

Yes.

There's a silver lining to the veterans coming back.

We know what you got eliminated on.

I know what you suck at.

I knew this was going to happen.

That's all I practiced on was my shortcomings.

I'm ready for anything.

This week, we're testing your fundamentals.

Fundamentals of tattooing start with the drawing, then it goes to your stencil, then it goes

to your application, line work, making sure your shading is smooth.

I didn't have that last time.

I do have it now.

If you get eliminated from poor fundamentals, maybe you should not tattoo anymore.

I don't know.

A true artist can make something extraordinary out of anything.

For this flash challenge, you must create an image on a 10 foot by 10 foot canvas using only

post-it notes.

That's a big canvas.

That's a tiny medium.

At each station are nearly 50,000 post-it notes.

You must layer them using each individual colored square as a basic building block to bring

one massive image to life.

Make something original, something beautiful, and that stands out from the crowd.

Remember, you win as a shop and you lose as a shop.

So you must work with your teammate.

Good thing you're talking.

You have five hours, and your time starts now.

Okay, what were you doing?

Oh, my God.

Run out the gate.

What the did you do that for?

Great start, great start.

Yeah, we don't need those yet.

Challenging these artists on post-it notes is a test to see who wants to really achieve something,

who wants to succeed, and who could stay focused.

Dude, I don't think five hours is enough.

We'll see how creative they are.

Laser gun, classic red.

Yellow Thunderbolt.

Sometimes veterans change the competition.

Sometimes the house puts their teeth on and gangs up against them, and it becomes a rough

room.

We're up DJ.

He's the problem.

If I could get these things open, dude, let daddy have it.

So what are we thinking, dude?

Torch going sideways.

We have to utilize this.

I know, but it would be.

You know what I'm saying?

OK, dude.

I'm taking the lead on this one.

We're a tiger.

The tiger would be sick.

If we layer the sticky notes, we can create fur, texture, straight lines.

Symmetry, all the fundamentals are falling into place.

Dude, let's do a gold tooth.

Maybe.

Huh?

I think that looks super sick.

I mean, let's get the tiger on there first.

I can't believe DJ's here.

Just don't let it get to you.

Just keep going.

Erin gets way nervous.

She's also her worst critic.

My goal is to keep Erin afloat enough that we can both get afloat together.

That looks awesome, Erin.

If even two or three more of the veterans that come in bring partners with a caliber of DJ

with them.

We're screwed.

This up my world.

Any thoughts?

Like a cherry blossom?

Have you drawn a cherry blossom tree before?

No.

You get a basic shape of a tree and have like.

You never draw one, but you want to do one without any references.

Yo, you need to trust me on this one.

Like, I got it.

I'm saying we've got to make smart decisions.

Well, what are you thinking?

I'm thinking Atlanta.

The only way we're going to win is if we're different.

I mean, let's just start playing with it.

Three hours remaining.

It's like you're stressed out.

I'm a little stressed out.

It's OK.

Last week, we won the best tattoo.

People are going to be coming after us.

We have to win this flash challenge today.

You can take 10 seconds to calm down.

10, 10, 10, 10, 7.

That looks sloppy as though.

Sweetheart.

Can I help?

Can you focus on your side?

Because you don't even know what I'm doing.

It looks really messy, though.

Just being a married couple, we

Do you sometimes struggle, OK?

So chill out, bro.

No.

It's just stressful.

I don't like it when you talk to me like that.

I'm not trying to be hurtful.

I'm just trying to help you understand, because I think sometimes you have a hard time seeing

outside yourself.

I think I'm just going to shut up and start sticking Post-it notes on the wall.

Just because you don't think it isn't hurtful or rude doesn't mean that it isn't.

I understand that.

If I do it again, then it's being hurtful.

This isn't the first time we've had this talk.

One more hour.

Still got a whole half this goddamn thing to do, too, man.

I don't know.

I don't know what to do, dude.

I'm getting frustrated because it's really important for us to win this, especially considering

what was going on today back at home.

Wes lost his mother-in-law the day before he came out here.

I think I missed my mother-in-law's funeral to .

with post-it notes all day.

I felt the pressure to perform well for Wes's sake and his family's sake.

I'll let you down on this one, buddy.

Oh, Mike.

Seriously.

I think I came up with a better idea than this.

4, 3, 2, 1.

That is it.

Time is up.

Woo!

All right.

Well, it's something.

It's tough coming in.

There's a giant target on my forehead.

That tiger's legit, though, dude.

Thanks.

I know a bunch of the people before this, and they know my capabilities.

So that just made the target even bigger.

OK, artists, time for the judges to critique your work.

First up, Old Town Ink right into the fire, huh?

It was good.

I'm ready this time, you know?

To find balance and to be able to really center it up and make it fit your canvas well shows

a great use of fundamentals.

You have the layers of hair that go down.

And from a distance, it doesn't really look like it's made out of a bunch of tiny squares.

You pulled it off.

It's a killer job.

Artistic skin designs.

The bold black outline on here correlates the tattooing perfectly.

The hot and cold color palette works great.

Overall, I think you guys do show strong fundamentals in your piece.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Black anchor.

It has a very remedial feel.

The complete, whited out sky with a little bit of blue clouds is weird.

And the border gives me a very crocheted grandmother feel.

Black anchors feels a little childish.

For the tattoos that they make, I thought they would have came with something ridiculous.

Pins and Needles.

I like the radiating sun that juxtaposes off of the really blue sky and the stark white clouds.

But it's very simple.

And from far, far away, it gets even more simple.

Allegory Arts.

It really has that slimy feel to the bottom.

You get a lot of really strong, bold outlines with this black post-it.

You stuck your fundamentals and made it legible.

Classic Trilogy tattoo.

Do you sense a nerdy theme here?

I got it.

I like the blast that you guys have coming out, the layers of yellow and green.

His legibility, I think you did fine.

All sexy.

Tri-Cities tattoo.

Other than the ATL at the top, I'm not sure what really makes this Atlanta.

But very simple, very bold, very legible.

Cool.

Unkindness art.

I actually think that you really did a dynamic, flowing piece of art.

It shows strong fundamentals just because it's got great composition.

It has a dynamic flow to it.

Those tiny squares inside the wave creates a nice whitewash.

It's one of the strongest of the day.

Thank you.

The Mark Society.

What was your plan here?

What are you?

This is a reposition of life and death.

It's been a hell of a day today, man.

His mother-in-law was buried today.

I'm definitely sorry to hear that.

Well, I will say this, man.

Your use of the post-its and the candle itself to create a three-dimensional appeal looks

really cool.

When you go through something like this, it's tough to be here.

If you need a minute to get together, go ahead, man.

You all right, dude?

Yeah, man.

You ain't alone.

You ain't alone, dude.

Yeah, we went home if you weren't here with me.

If you have a weak link, you fail.

It won't look right.

Why?

I had no idea how to do this tattoo.

Some tricks in store.

Guess what?

You cheated.

You're going to the bottom.

All right, guys, today we're testing fundamentals.

How do these guys do overall?

I think great artists can make great art on anything, and they're showing that.

One of the teams that got that done is unkindness art.

They had a nice design.

It was clearly legible.

It had a lot of motion to it.

They let the negative space breathe through the color, and nobody else did that.

Let's talk about artistic skin designs who did the torch.

I thought the outline showed really strong fundamentals.

Where they excelled for me, instead of just plastering yellow, they very meticulously placed

the yellow in a pattern.

Yeah, I thought it was one of the more dynamic pieces of the day.

Old Town Ink came out swinging.

Bubba Irwin back in the game.

What I really like about their piece is that it made sense, not only as a design, but also

as a creation with post-it notes.

Their fundamentals in this are very well done.

Time to give out a win.

Let's do it.

All right, guys.

Today, some of you really excelled showing your fundamentals.

Judges have decided the winner of today's flash challenge is Old Town

Ink.

Straight out the gate, dude.

Straight out the gate, dude.

You had a really strong outline, strong use of color.

The subject matter that you chose really played well to the fundamentals.

Congratulations, Bubba and DJ.

You'll have the power to assign all human canvases in the next elimination tattoo.

When I was on season four, I feel like I brought a BB gun to World War III.

And this time, I feel like I brought an A-bomb to World War I.

I love winning the first flash challenge and having control of this game.

Head on back to the loft.

Well, the new veterans, they have control of the tattoo.

Now they can just shoot at every single person in the room.

That's going to suck.

I'm just excited to get out there, man.

I know.

If we win both challenges right off the bat, like, these guys are going to themselves.

We've got to take out the people that you know are, like, hard hitters.

There's going to be tons of goals and might as well give them to the people who consider themselves

the best, are confident, and I'm all for it.

I just want to show everybody that I came to play.

You know what I mean?

I know.

DJ and Bubba are coming here, big dick swinging.

Thinking you run the place.

Thinking you run the place.

I'm not intimidated.

It comes back to what we said.

If you have a weak link, you fail.

Welcome to the elimination tattoo.

Based on your work, one shop will lose their shot at $200,000 and the first ever title

of master shop.

Bubba.

As the veteran artist, it's on your shop to prove that you deserve to be back in this competition

by proving that you have overcome your weaknesses.

In Bubba's honor, you'll all be judged on the fundamentals.

There's no better way to show your fundamentals than by tattooing a style that leaves you

no room for errors.

Illustrative black work.

Ooh.

Yeah, bring it on.

Using only lines of different lengths and widths, you must create texture

and contrast in your image.

Since there's no color or shading, the smallest flaw in your fundamentals will be obvious.

Line work, cake.

I'm ready to prove myself.

You're looking for line weight.

You can't just sit there and just because you can only use a line or needle doesn't mean you

can still color in an area.

Any areas of solid black is out of this challenge.

You have to be really good at lining with a tattoo machine.

You can't use any kind of shading.

Every imperfection is going to stand out.

And for this tattoo,

you will once again be tag teaming.

Your shop will create one tattoo on the same canvas.

Only one of you can tattoo at a time, and you must switch artists every hour.

And there's one other thing that you should know.

We aren't the only ones who will be judging you today.

After every elimination tattoo, all of you will form the jury of peers.

You'll deliberate and choose one shop to put up for elimination.

There is a good side to this.

If somebody's being a real dick, it would be a quick way to get them out.

Let's meet your canvases.

Old Town, Inc.

Your shop won the flash challenge.

You have the power to assign the canvases.

If you want to get ahead in this competition, strategy is fundamental.

Go ahead and assign the canvases.

Bubba dropped the ball last time he was here.

What are you thinking about getting an octopus underwater scene?

We want to send a message.

We're definitely a force to be reckoned with.

I am looking to get a tiger caught by his toe on my leg.

Jesus.

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

Catch a tiger by his toe.

I want a blackwort demonic goat head with a crescent moon, roses, and a raven on my ribs.

Ooh.

The ribs is probably one of the hardest areas to tattoo.

You're constantly breathing.

You're constantly moving.

And in order to run a straight line, that person has to be still as possible.

I want a black work hand and dagger with an amethyst on my calf.

Sick.

I want a black work anatomical heart sprouting a tree.

On the one side of the tree, the leaves will be a little bit more full.

And on the other side, they'll be, like, falling off with birds coming out of it on my outer

thigh.

Mother .

Did she really say that?

Any budging on that?

No.

No budging.

I promise.

Swear to god.

Perfect.

Swear to god.

OK, cool.

My strategy is just a gun for the people that we know.

The pink is the worst.

Black Anchor, both these guys are well-known around the world.

They have a well-known shop.

So we're coming out swinging.

All right, canvases.

One by one, please read the name on the bottom of your skull.

Tri-City Tattoo.

Old Town Ink.

Marked Society.

Let's guide the ribs.

Artistic skin design.

Old Town Ink, you're just trying to throw me a big rib tattoo, but joke's on you.

I actually don't mind tattooing ribs.

Classic trilogy tattoo.

Unkindness art.

Black anchor.

They screwed us over.

Old Town Ink is definitely painting a giant target on their back.

Pins and needles.

Alidori Arts.

All right, guys.

You will have six hours to show that you've mastered the fundamentals.

Based on your work, one shop will be out.

Good luck.

Today, I think these artists are going to be faced with a design challenge.

The challenge is more of like an etching style.

Overall, your line work has to be really clean and perfect.

One bad line sticks out like a sore thumb.

A tiger pot bites toe?

Yeah, like a string suspending him by like one, like a back toe.

I have no idea how to do this tattoo.

How much space are you trying to work with?

Well, um, probably all the way down to here, right?

That'd be huge, man.

Well, if we're not going to go big, then we really can't wrap it.

You know what I mean?

Why not?

It's not going to wrap it this morning.

After the bad flash challenge that we had and the stuff that we've been going through as a

team, her nitpicking and demanding this and demanding that is making it a lot tougher for

us.

It's smaller, and it won't look right.

Why?

Can we hear your idea again?

It's an anatomical part.

OK.

With a tree growing out of it, on the one side of the tree, the leaves will be a little bit

more full.

And on the other side, they'll kind of be like falling off, almost kind of like a death kind

of feel.

Are you willing to, like, work with us?

Maybe not putting some certain things in?

As long as you can work with me.

She's not budging.

She has her mindset on how she wants the tattoo to look.

Do you guys have some portfolios I could see?

This is going to suck.

You want to take a lead on this one?

I can.

This is a team.

I don't want to draw this.

And then you come in and say, hey, I don't like this.

Change this.

Well, then that's why I want to get your input now.

The tentacles have to be consistent.

These are from the reference.

That's why I didn't really want to use reference.

OK, well, I think it's best that you finish your drawing, and then I'll just finish mine,

and we can just do it that way.

Bang is designing her tattoo like it's the tattoo that we're going to do.

It's not happening.

If my design is stronger, we need to go with mine.

What you got?

This.

OK, well, it has like a realistic feel.

It's just .

OK, so we're not doing this one pretty much.

OK, artist, you have six hours to tattoo.

If your fundamentals aren't right, your shop will be packing.

And your time starts now.

This week's elimination tattoo, we're testing illustrative line work.

You want to jump on it first or me?

You can do it, Bruce.

All right.

You have to be able to create depth and dimension without coloring anything in, because there

is no shading, just line work only.

Let's delete that one for now and maybe, like, move it over.

Yeah, that looks great.

In these tag team tattoos, you really start to get a feeling of which teams work together

well and which teams are struggling.

All right.

Good luck.

What are

you doing so far?

Peachy.

Peachy.

The ribs are a very, very sensitive area.

It's just like a vicious kitten is giving you a little tickle.

Find your happy places.

Not in this competition to wuss out.

Oh, yeah.

If he can sit through it, we can sit through it.

That looks great, sweetheart.

You want to figure out how the hell we're going through this area?

The ear?

She wants a full-body tiger caught by the toe with the back foot stretched out, crawling down

her leg.

And that's what we're giving her.

If the tail is black, I just don't know exactly how we want to achieve that.

I think our friendship has a lot to do with how well we can perform.

I'm going to break the line where, like, the black is going to go, you know?

He can read me, and I can read him.

You know, when he's upset, I can tell.

I think he's my best friend.

Thanks, dude.

We've been through a lot of ,, haven't we?

Yeah, we have.

.

Yeah, Mikey.

You have four hours remaining, and switch artists.

Y'all done yet?

Not yet.

The pupils of the eyes can't do any dots or anything like that?

Lines only.

Mark society is having huge problems.

This tiger is not looking like a tiger.

This is a big time fundamental flaw.

It's cool.

We kind of just, uh...

Let's give her what she wants.

Yeah.

Our canvas wants everything you could possibly imagine in one tattoo.

We just gotta try to show fundamentals.

We had a couple lines that weren't, like, in all the way.

We could consistently.

Yeah.

If we could just show crisp, clean dimension and shapes, then hopefully we won't be in the

bottom.

Just basically double up that top thumb line.

And I'm gonna go over a lot of these.

Just don't change nothing.

I'm not used to anybody telling me, don't do this or don't do that.

Nice.

Beautiful.

It's kind of hard to step back and let someone else take the reins, but I'm doing it because

I'm doing whatever it takes to win this thing.

This is your final hour.

One more hour remaining.

Switch again.

Of course, yours is looking perfect.

It's going to get a lot cooler.

Some tricks in store.

I see DJ is using a mag.

I'm shocked straight off the bat.

DJ is using a magnum.

Is he?

Just pushing it like a liner, but...

It's still not the same as lining.

A lining needle is a group of needles that are tightly put together like this.

A mag are needles that are put in between each other and make this shape.

So he's using a mag to essentially emulate like five single-line needles?

Yeah.

That's kind of weak, dude.

Being allowed to use a mag in this challenge would mean that you could do multiple tiny lines

that are perfectly spaced.

with much less work than pulling individual lines.

This is not cool.

Pulling lines with a mag?

Who the ?

These artists might be a little jealous they didn't think of this trick first.

Yeah, dude.

Hell yeah.

3, 2, 1.

That is it.

Machines down.

Time is up.

No more ink.

Oh my god, I love it.

Thank you.

You guys are awesome.

Thank you.

It's better in the mirror.

Holy crap.

So dope, dude.

It looks shaded.

That was the whole point.

Old time, guess what?

You cheated.

You used a mag.

You're going to the bottom.

You're not scared of nobody.

Your lines are terrible.

Don't try me, Brett.

Don't try me.

You're .

They used a mag.

You guys just didn't think about it.

We did.

We followed the rules, though.

That stuff all exposes you guys heavily.

The tattoo you guys just did, I walked by it.

It was solid.

But that whole mag trick?

We did not break any rules.

There's not one part of that thing that's shaded.

All those mag lines are one path.

You guys are bending the rules, you know?

He said black lines.

He did not say, we didn't use the wash.

Use the liner.

He didn't say, no mags.

I might have pulled out a trick that might be around a rule.

It's just somebody thought of it, and you guys didn't.

I think you should assume that we're focused on every single move you make to find a reason

to kick you the out.

Totally get that.

And I'm doing that with you guys, too.

your fundamentals.

Bubba, this challenge was designed to test your weaknesses.

Old Town Ink, you're up first.

Bubba, how's it been back?

I feel like I've been preparing to come back here since I left.

I'm ready for it.

This is a very clean, very legible, very strong illustration.

Technically, the lines look clean.

The varying line weights are used smartly.

And from a distance, you do create shading with using only small lines.

Little reactions over there.

What's going on?

They used a mag.

I mean, I would have used the mag, too, if I could have.

We all would have.

You guys just didn't think about it.

You guys are mad because you didn't think about it.

No, we did.

We followed the rules, though.

We followed the rules, too.

Dragging the mag.

I mean, it is a way to make lines.

I think it's smart.

If you look close at this.

Please do.

It is lines.

Every single spot.

Yeah, but the same effect that they did with the mag, I went through and I did it with a single

needle.

A lot of us did.

This is a game.

And if you're smarter than your opponent, oh well.

I will tell you this.

I'm pretty sure that these guys aren't going home.

Unkindness art.

One of the main areas where you can show some fundamentals and some really nice details would

be in the jewels.

And I think that opportunity you guys miss.

It's just not very clean.

Compositionally, it looks unfinished.

It leaves you wanting to know where the rest of this elephant is.

And just the one foot is a little bit strange.

Allegory Arts.

This tattoo is very uniform throughout.

It looks like an old illustration out of a classic book.

That's what we were going for.

You have different line weights in very decisive directions.

Those lines really show the contour and the shape.

Your craftsmanship, your line work, is very clean.

Black anchor.

It's very simple.

You didn't really

create this topographical map to show me the depths of this heart.

With all these lines in here, it still looks flat.

The whole tattoo looks very tense.

There's not a lot of breaks, not a lot of variance.

We played the best hand that we could with the cards that we were dealt.

It's line work versus line work, so whoever doesn't have the cleanest line work is going home.

Pins and Needles.

There is a debate about how thick and colored in these big lines are.

That is not a one-path line.

No, it's not a one-path.

It's two.

The circles you have around the main jewel in the center, look at all the problems you guys

had in there.

Even the thin lines that you have coming off of that, you hit a lot of speed bumps.

Your guys' line work is pretty rough throughout this tattooing.

Classic trilogy tattoo.

It's simple, it's very legible, but the boldness of the geometry behind gets a little bit

confusing.

You could have done something to make that stand out from the back so that it doesn't get

so blended in.

One of the areas that I think you teeter-tot here is sculpting a lot of the lines.

One pass is what we're looking for because the one pass is what proves that you can sink a

line and not go back to it.

Try City's tattoo.

It does have nice flow to it, but it just didn't follow through.

There's a lot of line work difficulties in this statue.

These arc lines that go down the tentacles, very inconsistent.

And also, some of the coral looks very similar to the tentacles of the octopus.

Today is about pulling one line.

I just don't feel like your guys' quality is living up to the rest of the rooms.

Artistic Skin Designs.

I love this tattoo, especially in these eyes, the fact that you got them so dark and wet with

the line work.

I love the effects that you pulled off.

The lines on the horns really create the contour and the shape and design of what we're looking

at.

Overall, it came out so strong.

Thank you.

The Mark Society.

This tiger is crazy.

If you take the head out of the equation, this thing looks like a lizard with some broken

body parts.

Where is the tiger's right shoulder?

How does that come off his spine right there?

Anatomy has proven to be a big issue.

You've got some clean lines, but you didn't really capture the look of this challenge.

You just crosshatch haphazardly.

There's one tooth missing.

Oh, you crosshatched over it.

Devil's in the details.

That stuff all exposes you guys heavily.

Time to determine who had the best tattoo of the day.

My top three is allegory.

Artistic, an old town.

For me, it's artistic skin design.

It's the most dynamic.

It's the one.

I think, hands down, it's a landslide on that one.

The judges have decided the best tattoo of the day, second week in a row, goes to artistic

skin design.

Congratulations.

Paint that target on their back.

As the jury appears, you must deliberate and put one shot up for elimination.

Head back to the log.

They reamed us down there, man.

You guys are, like, giving up.

I'm just embarrassed.

It's not giving up.

We can see we have flaws.

Right, we can see our flaws in our test.

We didn't deny anything.

I said for certain that we should be down there.

We know we have some shaky-ass lines, but we're going to defend what we're doing.

I don't defend shaky-ass lines.

Y'all had some shaky-ass lines.

Y'all had lines that weren't even in there because you were rushing.

Are you scared that our line would spare yours?

I'm not scared of nobody.

And that's why I always say what I got to say.

Don't try me, bro.

Don't try me, bro.

And what, lining?

Your lines are terrible.

And yours were, too.

No, they're not.

They're clean.

That one clean line that he did?

No, bro.

We all did the lines.

At least our will stay for life.

Yours is going to wash out in two years.

Yours is going to stay for life.

And you can't fix that.

Your .

We're here as a jury appears to determine which shot to put up for elimination.

Between Mark Society and Tri-Cities,

Would you like to wear drawn wrong tiger or drawn wrong octopus?

Octopus.

Octopus.

That's a rough tattoo.

I mean, it's not perfect, but there are.

No, no, it's way, way past not perfect.

With ours, you can tell there's some type of dimension.

With Mike's, you don't have a foreground, a middle ground, a background.

I do agree with that.

The application of both have equal amount of errors in them.

It also came down heavy on you girls.

I feel like we definitely deserve what we got up there.

I still think that we should vote you guys for using a man.

This is completely, fundamentally sound.

Bubba's been here before.

They're going to the bottom out of principle.

That's why I would not have agreed to break the rules.

You probably thought it was the advantage, so you kept quiet about it.

So we're going off technicalities right now.

I think you guys just thought you weren't going to get caught, and then it bit you in the

ass.

All right, today we're testing fundamentals.

Old Town Inc.

here, Bubba Irwin back.

He left because of his fundamentals.

Did he come back and make good on that?

Bubba definitely showed us he can do line work.

Bubba definitely.

has been working his ass off.

How far can he go with it?

We're going to have to see.

Tri-Cities, they really had a rough day today.

The shape of the octopus is nice.

This tattoo is really rough.

These guys should be in the bottom.

No.

Who?

Pins and needles.

When you get into it, technically, there's a lot of rough lines.

Would you say that Mart Society is in the bottom?

The tooth is gone.

They made one eye dark and one eye light.

That is not a cat body.

Maybe a dead, hairless cat.

It's going to be a tough decision.

And this week, we're going to have the jury appears for the first time in this competition.

Their voices are really going to be interesting because they're all teams.

So let's bring them down here and see what happens.

Here we go.

All right, jury appears.

Which team are you sending up for elimination?

The jury appears.

Nominate Old Town, Inc.

Are you kidding me?

Technicality, man.

Good luck with that.

All right.

In the bottom, we'll see Old Town E, Tri-Cities Tattoo, and

the Mark Society.

We'll see you and everybody else downstairs.

Oh, .

You got safe on this one.

Just remember that technicality isn't always going to be there.

Exactly.

We're going to get the over with.

Face the music.

Let's go.

Well, let's go.

Check it out.

Yep.

That was way too close.

Today, you had to tattoo illustrative black work.

Based on your work, one shop will be packing their machines.

Let's hear from the jury of peers.

Guys, why did you vote Old Town Ink to the bottom?

You better play by the rules or you're in the bottom.

Wow.

I don't think that I should be here right now.

But nobody's saying that the tattoo's down here because it's one of the worst of the day.

Well, I'm going to say this.

Pins and needles also colored in big areas of black, which was explicitly said do not do.

And their tattoo was far inferior to this tattoo.

Why the am I here right now?

Had we all got the chance to use a mag, the caliber of work that we would produce might be

better.

It's ridiculous.

Do your best tattoos and let your work speak for itself.

You guys put up somebody that you're threatened by.

I think you wasted your time.

I'm pretty sure that they're not going anywhere today.

100%.

So should we move on?

Yes, sir.

Yep.

OK, let's get into Tri-Cities tattoo.

You did come a little bit stronger with the design, but it's pretty clear.

This is a bottom tattoo.

The purpose of this challenge was to create a tattoo showing depth through line work.

We created depth.

We have a foreground, a middle ground, and a background.

But you have a lot of sloppy line work here.

Lines are crossing over.

Lines are mismatching.

But there are examples of some solid line work also.

You ain't pulled a clean line since you've been here.

I'm going to eat the out of your tattoo, bro.

Yeah, eat it up.

The Mark Society.

The bulk of your disability in this tattoo is the design.

It's been a hell of a week, you know, dealing with the personal problems and just trying to

get in a groove.

The biggest thing that would make it hard for me to see you guys be in master shop is the

fact that this tiger is so far off, it's odd.

It's a tough decision because both of your teams are parallel on problems.

But we created them.

They have a flat image.

At least with our tattoo, you can tell.

What about the anatomy on yours?

Let me, can I finish talking?

Yeah.

I feel like with odds, you can at least tell what it is.

Our drawing was flawless.

We didn't stumble on the anatomy.

Just because I didn't call y'all to bust out for anatomy doesn't mean this anatomically correct.

You don't know how to draw.

That somebody's got 15 legs.

Thanks.

Yes.

Listen, the end of the day, we're looking at the finished tattoo.

It's a stumble.

All right, it is time to determine who's going home.

This actually is a tough call.

I mean, I know the tiger is jacked.

I know the octopus looks more like an octopus.

And for Mark Society, they do have some cleaner lines.

I don't know.

Chris.

Mark Society.

My vote is also Mark Society.

Over.

I guess I'm going to go with Mark Society as well.

The judges have decided, the Mark Society, you do not have what it takes to be master shop.

Your outline and your drawing are the framework for everything that goes in them.

So if you can't get those things together in this competition, then I think rightfully you

guys are in the right place.

Please pack your machines and move out.

I'm a little disappointed, man.

Yeah, I'm disappointed too, bro.

We didn't get to show a fraction of what we were capable of doing.

I should have never even let that thing leave paper.

I don't know what the hell I was thinking, dude.

Dude, it's the pressure of the situation, man.

This is not your normal average tattoo shop.

We didn't expect it.

The chaos of this competition.

It's good to hell out here.

Come here.

Pleasure doing this with you.

Yeah.

Love you, bro.

Love you, too.

We just couldn't get it to click.

Let's go home and kill it, Mikey.

On the next episode of Ink Master.

Why are we competing?

You think I was competing with you?

This doesn't work for me.

That looks sloppy.

That's not true at all.

Instead of shooting down my stuff.

You're feeling a fit.

There's like 700 windows in there.

Pedal to the metal, guys.

We might have bit off more than we could chew.

Are we not judging on the worst tattoo of the day, period?

Because that's what I thought I was here to do.

Ours is a little bit more recognizable.

Our tattoo, when you look at it like.

This thing is just a storm.

That's where you killed yourself.