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on the last episode of Ink Master Shop Wars.

There's a six-man alliance in this house.

That's scary.

A legendary veteran returned.

Mr.

Tommy, help.

And the alliance felt the pressure.

I don't know what you're doing, but it's not good.

I feel like everything I'm saying, like, shooting me down.

I just, I'm done with this.

In the elimination tattoo, the veterans had the upper hand.

They're shooting for allegory, unkindness, artistic skin.

Black Cobra, you're doing it right.

They need to go home.

Butt tattoos.

I feel like I'm moving around.

It's just so hard to tattoo an area that doesn't have any elasticity.

The Cool Kids Club scrambling and struggling for their lives, and we're sitting here on Easy

Street.

Oligory completely dropped the ball.

But who's going to step up and say that?

Because you guys are so worried about being nice and being friends with people, you're not

worried about winning.

That's completely not true.

We can all sit around and sing kumbaya, or we can all compete for $100,000 each.

In The Elimination, Empire State Studio.

Allegory Arts and Pins and Needles were the bottom three shops.

Empire State Studio.

This is a proportion day.

That back leg is whacked out of proportion.

Allegory Arts.

I can't believe you tattooed it the way you tattooed it.

There isn't a well-pulled line in the pack.

Pins and needles.

Proportionately, it seems completely crazy.

The back leg is just one width, one thickness, all the way up.

Pins and needles.

You do not have what it takes to be master shop.

Eight shops remain to take on returning veteran shops, but only one will earn a $200

,000 prize and the title of Master Shop.

Everyone in this room right now has either been mentioned or won every Flash Challenge.

We're going to ask you guys to join our alliance to make sure all the best tattooers stay

to the end and we battle like gentlemen.

So what does this alliance entail?

Watching out for each other.

We all just back each other up every time someone's got there.

Damn straight.

We're going to take the top to the top and then slowly but surely slice out all the mediocre.

Target-wise, who do you guys think is the most important to get off?

Christian.

Basilica.

Yeah.

Then we'll start with Basilica.

them.

Welcome, guys.

As you can see, Oliver is not here this week.

So filling in for him, we've invited a very special guest judge.

Tattooing for 20 years, he's the owner of Tommy Montoya's Clockwork Tattoo Club, none other

than Mr.

Tommy Montoya.

What's up, guys?

I'm known for black and gray and portraits, but I like to call myself a jack of all trades.

And one of my mottos is, you pick it, I'll stick it.

So I like to do everything.

When I see a bat tattoo, I get very pissed.

I'm going to tear some of these guys a new one.

This is the last week a new shop will enter the competition.

Oh, I'm so stoked this is the last shop coming in.

We just got to eliminate everybody that's already here.

You've reached a milestone.

But remember, only one shop will earn two

$100,000, a feature in Inked Magazine, and the title of Ink Master.

And for the first time ever, the title of Master Shop.

Right now, it's time to meet the last returning veterans.

They both competed on season five, and one of them also competed on season seven.

No.

No.

Representing Golden Skull Tattoo in Las Vegas, Nevada, Clean Rock One, and Aaron

Is.

Oh.

I met this joker on season five, and ever since, we've been broskies.

We both already know what our strengths and weaknesses are, because we were trying to utilize

them against each other last time.

He claims to be the portrait king over here.

You do claim that you're the portrait king.

I'll put money on it.

The precision is not there in that mouth.

Those lips are not her lips.

Portrait king just got decrowned.

Aaron, what's it feel like to be eliminated?

Because I've never been there.

The veteran about to walk through the door is one of the most versatile artists ever to compete.

Clean Rock One.

You kind of lose that genuine look of his smile.

The shape of the mouth itself, Regan has a bump on the bottom right side that really comes

up, and you do it pretty straight.

Clean gets a pass a lot of times.

What's up, Christian?

Hey, you know what?

You guys all got something to say.

At least I got the balls to say it.

Third time's a charm, Clean.

I got a score to settle with the old knucklehead.

There's not one person I want to compete against more than this guy.

Let him know to keep his bags packed, because he's not going to stay very long.

Oh, yeah.

This week is designed to put your shop to the test.

Succeed and you stay, but fail and your shop will go home just as quickly as you return.

This week, we're testing precision.

Precision is being very, very accurate with every single line and every single little detail

that you put into your piece of art.

This whole time, I've been practicing everything that's my weakness.

I'm coming in hot on this one.

For this flash challenge, you need a steady hand because instead of using tattoo machines

to puncture skin, you must use a drill to puncture wood.

Using different size drill bits, your design will be determined by the size of the holes you

drill and the distance between them.

I have used a power drill to hang up art on the wall, but I have never made art with it.

This is just going to be a nightmare.

Wynn and your shop will have the power to assign all the human canvases for the elimination

tattoo.

You have five hours, and your time begins now.

Awesome.

Let's do it.

Today, these artists are going to drill into a board and use a light behind it to create a

pattern.

I'm doing a .

That's going to be insane.

Precision in this challenge is going to be everything in order to create holes to create depth

and dimension in the piece.

So for bright whites, big holes close together for the bright whites.

Also precision will be necessary to keep the piece looking aligned and tight.

It's going to be the candle.

I'm joining now because I need to start drawing my lines.

I'm like a dude dude.

I'm not afraid of any power tools.

I got an old garage full of the damn things.

We decided to cut out.

huge portions of the board.

Nobody else is going to do it because it's so risky.

All the solid whites are going to come through like Jesus in the clouds, baby.

We need to get this first skull pick and let everybody in the house know that we're here and

we mean business.

Awesome.

So far, so good.

Think about what you're doing before you do it.

Everybody's going to try and do some crazy big piece to show off.

And all you got to do is go simple.

We go right back to basics, geometric shapes.

How many painters have painted a still life?

This skull pick is vital, man.

We got people on our side now, and we're all gunning for that alliance on the other side of

the room.

It's time to send them home.

Here, they need to be squattier and see more of it up here.

No, this would be in front of it.

You guys, do what you want.

So no conversation at all?

I mean, I'm telling you.

The handle does not literally look like this.

You're doing it wrong.

That's all I'm telling you.

Ulysse and I have a very balancing dynamic.

I'm being a dick.

No, I'm not.

But when he is done listening, he is done listening.

Can you just, like, play?

Can I do what?

You know what you're doing, obviously, because you won't listen to anything that I say.

If we can't smooth this out, there's no reason to even continue, because nothing good comes

out of that.

I don't know how to continue it now.

Then do what you were gonna do, and we'll take the hit for it.

Two more hours to go, guys.

Two more hours.

This is all gonna go very fast in here.

I've actually created a special tool to be able to make perfect circles on our canvas.

Those holes are all pretty heated.

Oh, it looks really cool.

Matt's gonna be doing a lot of work today.

Does it look like I do woodworking back home?

No.

Let's do the exact same thing on the bottom.

Katie is just sitting around, not drilling holes, not drawing holes, not measuring anything.

Now introducing Katie, professional wipey girl.

Oh, you didn't finish the wing.

Oh, that was, I thought that was like an erase one.

Erin and I are still struggling with some communication issues.

I just don't, I just don't want it to look like polka dots, which is what it did look like

the first time.

Can we just skip flesh challenges?

I like the second one.

I don't know why you got rid of it.

All right.

It's hard to keep bringing the same fight every week.

Five.

Four, three, two, one.

That's it.

Machines down.

No more drilling.

I think the judges are going to love this design.

Classic Trilogy did some straight up art class boring .

And I don't give a about this pattern that Black Cobras got.

Like, come on.

We got this in the bag.

All right, guys, it is time to critique your work.

And Basilica Tattoo, let's start with you.

I do like the cleanliness of the design.

Your lady bugs are smaller, more detailed.

You use different size of drill bits to create shading.

You definitely created depth.

I think it's cool as .

Thank you.

Empire State Studio.

This could have been a train wreck.

I think you guys did a good job.

If this thing were to go awry, you would see it in a second.

So I think you guys showed off strong precision in this piece.

Artistic skin design.

It's appealing to the eye when you look at it.

As far as precision,

Some of those tentacles are a little bit crooked.

You want to make sure when you're sitting there with that drill, you're hitting every hole.

Classic trilogy tattoo.

We wanted to make something real simple, but still show precise light directions and shapes.

Damn, homie, this is sick.

I like the way you did the little burst up there.

We get that idea of a light source.

For as simple as it can be, this is where it all starts.

These are the shapes.

It's a pleasure to look at, and I'm happy for you.

Thank you very much.

They like it, finally.

I think a lot of people have written us off, but we're not out of this game yet.

Black cobra tattoos.

You've created quite an optical illusion.

It actually does play with your eyes, which is pretty incredible, considering it's a piece

of wood with a drill.

You show ultimate precision.

Great job.

We didn't come here to mess around.

Yeah, we're in it to win it.

They did circles.

Good job, guys.

Unkindness art.

I like the top half of this a lot more than the lower half.

The head.

It's so precise, but then as you go down, it's kind of like wah, wah, wah.

Allegory Arts.

Your design is pretty loose.

Your chain gets a little out of shape.

Hand in the spider web as well.

There's some discrepancies.

I just don't know if it's going to compete with the rest of the field.

Old Town Ink.

I'm not blown away by the design.

I wish it was a little more interesting, but the bottom circle that everything's radiating

from is a very nice touch.

You guys really show a lot of precision in that area.

Golden Skull Tattoo.

There's definitely contrast in it.

There's some things in there that could have been a little more precise, but you attempted

a difficult piece.

Pretty cool.

I didn't come back to pussyfoot around everything.

I'm going to go balls to the wall on every single flash challenge I got.

Oh, no.

Her skin is lighting up like a damn Christmas tree.

I just really need you to relax your shoulders.

We might not finish at all.

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

Golden Skull is here, Erin is, and Clean Rock One.

I did like that they were able to pull out

massive sections to create different values.

Nobody else did that.

I'm not really super impressed by the candle in comparison to the rest of our field.

Our field really come on and actually excels in these challenges.

The competition was just crazy today.

Let's talk about Basilica Tattoo, who did the ladybugs.

I was pretty amazed by it.

There was precision in it.

The artwork was done well.

It looked like they really thought it out.

I was super impressed with their precision skills until I saw Black Cobra's piece.

They drew my eye into this vortex and was

And in order for that to happen, everything has to be perfect.

I don't know if I could have done better myself.

Can we let them know?

Yeah, let's do it.

All right, let's do it.

All right, guys, today you had to create an image that shows precision.

The judges have decided the winner of today's flash challenge is black cobra

tattoos.

Yay!

Really nice concentric circles, and it had a visual effect that was hard to achieve.

Good job, guys.

This is the best day ever.

Two flash challenges in a row.

Seriously, you guys are just going to let us take this all the way to the end.

Congratulations, Matt and Katie.

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

Again, this close.

At least they're on our side, so hopefully that plays into our hands in this next challenge.

You can all head back to the loft.

There is a click here, clearly.

All of it.

Cool kids help each other.

Am I at a birthday party, or am I competing for $200,000?

But here's the thing.

You guys won the last challenge.

Right now, we're the ones that are on the roll.

Right.

So I think we need to come up with a cohesive way of saying we're in control of this place.

Yeah, and we start squashing their alliance as it is.

Yeah.

So we fight harder, and the jury appears.

We direct the worst skull picks to those guys.

We all work together, do whatever we can to break that up and send them home.

Yeah, I'm in it to win it.

Because I do not want to see them be the final three.

Welcome to your next elimination tattoo.

The tiniest mistake could cost your shop $200,000 and the first ever title of master shop.

That's a lot of money.

Cleen and Aaron, as a veteran artist, it's on your shop to prove that you deserve to be here

by overcoming your weaknesses.

And in their honor, you will all be judged on precision.

And I'll bet you can see where this is going.

Just say it.

There's no better test of precision than a portrait.

I don't specialize in portraits, but I've done quite a few since season seven.

The pressure's on you, because if you send us home, I'm going to be pissed.

We're seeing the job, baby.

We're seeing the job.

A facial feature even a millimeter off could change the appearance of your portrait entirely.

For this elimination tattoo, you and your teammate must tattoo matching portraits on different

canvases.

Of course.

That's crazy.

Two days before we came here, Doom let me in on a little secret, which was that he has never

done a portrait before.

This might be the day we go home.

Every portrait's difficult in its own way.

Everybody's skin's different.

Being that you have to do the same portrait on two different people, that's super hard.

The key with this, I think, is communication.

Get a game plan in your mind.

What are you going to do?

How are you going to do it?

You guys got your work cut out for you.

Let's meet your canvases.

Black Cobra tattoos, your shop won the flash challenge.

That means that you have the power to assign the canvases.

Be precise.

Your future depends on it.

Matt and I came into this competition not wanting to form an alliance with any other team.

But if there are other teams here playing a strength in numbers game, then we're going to

have to fight back.

She's fresh.

Thank you.

Where are y'all wanting to put these?

On my thigh.

On my shoulder blade.

That's so hard.

I want to get a picture of my son.

No babies.

Nope.

Baby portraits are the kiss of death.

They're such subtle features and shading.

It's so easy to mess up.

Please do not give us a baby portrait.

This is my great-grandmother.

Ew, love.

It's a nice one.

My nana, her mom.

Oh, that's cute.

That's a good one.

That is a good one.

What are you wanting to get tattooed?

Tattoo of my daughter, black and gray.

I can't see that.

The photo is this big.

There's no way to do a precision portrait on something the size of a dime.

Do not want this tattoo, please.

Hello.

Ooh.

Does that hurt?

Of course, of myself.

Nice.

I love that.

Oh, my goodness.

Oh, my god.

How much of the image are you wanting to do?

Well, I would want to include my bottom body, of course.

I feel like it looks nice.

So you're wanting to do from, like, head to ass?

Yes.

OK.

I don't know who loves this girl more, her boyfriend or herself.

I definitely don't want this canvas.

Black Cobra is going to gun for everybody.

Definitely not the best portrait tattooer, so I'm already screwed on this one.

How much more is Black Cobra going to screw me?

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

Empire State Tattoo.

Yes.

Old Town Ink.

Yeah.

I like this one.

Beautiful mask.

Basilica Tattoo.

Yes.

I don't know that he's a artist.

They're giving off good people.

Artistic skin design.

Damn.

Why didn't you call that one out?

I did.

I'm freaking out.

I've never done a portrait of a toddler, and it's going to be awful.

Oh, I was going to get this one.

Unkindness art.

I hope you guys are ready to do battle, because if we make it through this one, I'm coming

for you.

A lot of .

Aligari arts.

Classic trilogy tattoo.

Black cobra tattoos.

I can't see the detail.

That picture is this big.

Golden skull tattoo.

Y'all are going to hate us.

We got hit with the hardest one on our first day, so we're just keeping with the tradition

that you earn your first day here.

You will have six hours to tattoo a precise portrait.

Based on your work, one shop will be out.

Good luck.

I'm excited to see what it looks like.

Yeah.

Portraits are already a challenging job, but the kicker here is they both have to match.

Let me see.

It looks a little big on her, right?

There's definitely gaps in some of these teams.

Pretty much going to be close to this actual size.

Maybe up here.

We'll see once we draw it out.

For people that are not as strong as their teammate, that's a storm.

My favorite day.

I know you said on the line that you wanted color.

Yes.

If we can't talk them down to at least a black and gray picture of her face, we're going home

for sure.

to get all the details and everything.

And face.

Yeah, have it really look like you.

If we focus on your face so it's bigger, all these details are going to be much more open,

and it's going to last better over time.

I'm flexible with their ears.

Awesome.

Those are the words I love to hear.

Is that a ponytail, or is that like a ribbon or something?

Yeah, no, it's a ponytail.

Black Cobra definitely screwed us.

They gave us the little tiny picture.

What do we got?

What do we got?

What do we got?

It's so hard to blow a little tiny photo up to get a good quality portrait.

It's all there.

It's just grainy.

I'm kind of nervous right now, because Aaron got kicked out on portrait day.

And you know what?

I was in the bottom last time I did one.

But I'm not ready to go home yet.

We just got here.

They totally shot our foot right now.

They gave us the worst picture ever.

Because you do more portraits, I'm going to watch you make this stencil for it so we can match.

I don't have a problem doing that at all.

Do you want me to trace mine, and then you just look at mine?

Yeah, we're already different.

Do you see his face line?

Let's get these things exactly.

Even on here, right, I don't think we should do the lines in the back.

No, no, no lines.

Just a little bit of shadow.

It's going to look exactly like this, you know, when we're done.

That's it.

Done here.

Right.

OK, artists, you will have six hours to tattoo matching portraits.

Your time starts now.

All right.

Yes.

Let's do it.

When you go get a portrait, you don't want it to almost look like the person, almost don't

count.

I think I should go a little bit smaller than this and a little bit bigger than that.

It's very important that they stay precise to the photo as well as to each other.

This is tough.

You don't know if your partner is going to go off on a tangent and do something crazy.

Are you super ready?

Let's do this, April.

Can you check what I'm doing to make sure that we're on the same page?

Yeah.

I am at Eva's Mercy on this one.

I'm definitely not the best portrait tattooer.

So this is the gap where it's, like, where this is?

Yeah, there's one lower and one higher.

Mm-hmm.

And then kind of wrap around.

Yep, you got it.

Mm-hmm.

Like that?

Yeah, that looks great to me.

I know that she knows what she's doing, so I'm just going to try to do the same.

It's a trust game at this point.

Uh, your skin gets really red really easily.

Oh, yeah, that's true.

Yeah, that always happens.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

Her skin is lighting up like a damn Christmas tree.

Let me see how it's going, bro.

You know, just making sure, because it's, like, getting really irritated, so I have to be,

like, super gentle.

I have to do a super subtle, soft baby portrait, and I can't tell how dark the ink is.

I am so screwed.

Oh, no.

You have four more hours remaining.

What do you got in this section?

Is that a one, and then this is a...

A skin tone, or is that most likely?

I haven't gotten there yet.

Oh, OK.

I'm a little worried about Tom, because it has been so long since he's done a portrait.

I'm going to say that's a skin tone.

Yeah, that's a skin tone.

All right, I'm sorry.

That's a one.

I just hope that he can rely on my strengths to help guide him through it, because you can't

wander on a portrait.

You have to do exactly what's in front of you.

What up?

Thanks for the mini pic.

Over here trying to give us the bad skull, and then we, uh, what's up?

Step to the stage, homie.

Yeah, but I don't think it worked.

Because I got the skills to pay the bills, man.

You know what?

We're just going to have to bite the bullet, and I'm going to have to pull out every trick

I got in my bag to take this little tiny photo and make a great portrait.

How are we going to judge this?

We may have some clear bottoms, which might save us a lot of hard work.

allegory arts they're just using color photos thrown off to the side on a black and gray portrait

that's crazy and they're backs to each other she's not even looking at the photo she's just

tapping artistic skin design did you notice the skin differences canvas is everything man

you've got an older woman a young lady their skins react different one just you put gray in

and it's great the other one you put the same gray and it don't look like nothing it's just

beet red i'm kindness heart

Her portrait is the one.

But if he doesn't step it up to her level, they can lose.

What's up, Doom?

God, you guys are flying.

Holy crap.

It is overly apparent that Doom has never done a portrait in his life.

You know you're going to do it in this competition.

Instead, you come in here and scratch something out on that dude's arm.

That's ridiculous.

Final hour.

One hour to go.

I just really need you to relax your shoulders.

The more tense you are, the worse it's gonna be for both of us.

My canvas is like tattooing a crying, squealing, mechanical bull.

This is like 30 seconds work, and we're turning into 10 minutes right now.

If she does not just sit still and let me do my job, we might not finish at all.

I can hear Aaron's canvas moaning from across the shop.

Dane's tattoo turns red every time he touches the lady.

I'm over here like a fish out of water.

I don't know how Black Cobra figured out how to get us all at one time, but they definitely

have.

The alliance is in trouble.

Four, three, two, one.

That is it.

Machines down.

Time is up.

No more ink.

Let's take a look and see what we got here.

Yeah.

Look at that.

Are they twins?

What's going on here?

Nice.

Awesome.

Looks like mom.

Absolutely.

Glad we could do that for you guys.

Thanks.

Absolutely.

This is awesome.

For sure.

The stages of stress today were insane.

Now I'm like, yeah, totally.

If it's going to get worse, well, I'm glad I got warmed up on that one.

Yeah.

Bring it on.

Six more to send home.

Dude, we killed it.

Yeah, I think we did good.

Choose your words wisely, because you had the worst tattoo I've ever seen.

Hey, his back is getting heavy carrying you.

If you're not looking at the kid, they look like little old men.

Too much of a mess.

The worst tattoo on their team was better than your best tattoo.

I don't agree.

You don't think Bubba ?

slayed you?

Dude, he owned you.

Come on.

See, I disagree.

I think theirs was far superior.

Tom, choose your words wisely, because you had the worst tattoo I've ever seen.

Hey, I'm, I'm.

Dude, I was actually worried about you guys first few challenges, and now I'm just like, through

the whole competition, I'm still waiting for you to arrive, because everybody's complimenting

DJ on how great your team is doing.

His back is getting heavy carrying you.

I'm fine riding the middle of the end.

I know this.

That's bull .

You haven't rode the middle.

You've been in the bottom.

We've only been in the bottom twice.

Three strikes, you're out.

Ali, good to see you back.

Oliver Peck is back with us.

I'm feeling good.

We're worried about you.

I had a heart attack.

I got a couple stints put in.

I'm now better than I was before.

Raring to go.

Thank you, thank you.

Today, you had to tattoo the ultimate test of precision, matching portraits.

Cleen and Aaron, this challenge was designed to test your weaknesses.

Golden Skull Tattoo, you're up first.

Cleen.

Did you practice before you came?

Yes.

I definitely want to tip my hat to you, man.

You did a great portrait here.

The eyes and the mouth, you hit them perfectly, especially that little turned up corner of

the lip on the right side is what really captures her look.

Aaron, I like the way you did the black in the hair.

Your hair maybe is a little bit better than Cleen's, but as far as the application on the

face and everything, Cleen might have made it a little more smooth.

Y'all did a great job taking the exact same approach on the tattoo.

I mean, you really try to mimic each other's stencil to the T.

There's a lot of precision in this tattoo.

Allegory Arts.

You very clearly missed a mark on details in the photo.

Y'all had the same approach for this nose, but that is not a human nose.

It has a very feline look to it.

Ulyss, the tattoo doesn't look like this little girl.

The eyes, they're just different shapes.

Eva, I think you did get in there with a lot more precise detail on the hair.

And overall, the technique and the shading is smoother, but you still distort the shape of

her face.

The shading you put above her left eye, you create these indentions and protrusions that just

aren't there.

On a precision day, you need to pay exact attention to every single little detail.

Nailed it.

The coffin, yeah.

A silica tattoo.

Judging these tattoos individually, they both look like the photo.

They both captured the girl.

But we're definitely looking at completely different images here.

Nolan, in the photo, she has a certain look in her face that's like she's gentle.

And yours, she looks like she's mad and aggressive.

There's some precision, obviously, in these tattoos.

The only thing is you want to make them look the same.

Big picture, they both got decent tattoos.

But I don't know if decent tattoos are going to win the competition.

Empire State Studio.

Looking at these, if I looked really quick, I would think it was the same tattoo.

Tommy did a little bit better in the hairline, did a little bit better in the hair.

But as far as the overall softness of the face, Marvin, I think you really kill it.

This is precision day, so we're being precise on our critiques.

You guys definitely hit the mark.

Unkindness art.

The divide is monstrous between these two tattoos.

Well, Aaron, technically, very smooth, very professionally done.

Kitten.

No sugarcoating this tattoo, man.

It's beat.

The hair is just messy.

There's scratchy lines that you can still see through where the black is.

And the areas where you're supposed to have soft details, nose, eyes, lips, chin, neck, it's

just rough.

This is my first portrait.

That's part of being an Ink Master.

You've got to be able to do everything.

Float as a ship or sink as a ship.

Today, you're sinking.

Classic trilogy tattoo.

Let's keep it 100.

Your tattoos, they're different big time.

The hair looks different.

The eyes look different.

The noses, the mouth.

Overall, Derek's looks more like the photo.

Tom's eyes are doing different things.

One's looking up.

One's bugging out.

You create this real stern lip on that right eye that gives it more of a creature type feature

on the outside.

Swing and a miss.

Old Town Ink.

Both of you hit the mark on capturing the kid.

But as far as a team, this is another one where there's a definite divide between the two

tattoos.

Bubba, I think you've progressed a lot as a tattooer.

But DJ's tattoo is the HD version of yours.

Looks like if you took the other one and you just shined the out of it.

DJ's perfect.

The nose is perfect.

The mouth here is perfect to me.

Keep tattooing like this, bro.

The rest of the competition will be able to buy new jeans, a boy shirt, and take classes to

tie those shoes.

Thanks.

Artistic skin design.

Usually you look at a portrait, and you're drawn to the eyes.

I'm drawn to the clothing.

On both of them, that sweater and that shirt, I see precision all day.

But it just looks like a different artist did the top half.

In both of them, the hair is completely different.

Dane, you brought the left side down a little further.

In April, you brought the right side up a little.

They're not consistent or precise with the photo, and certainly not with each other.

Black Cobra tattoos.

There's precision in terms of being similar in your approach on the tattoo, but they're equally

different from the photo.

I don't feel like either of you hit the hair in any way.

There's a lot of inferred, made-up kind of styles, and that changes the dynamic of her face.

Also, the shading in the face, it doesn't look soft like skin.

It looks like fur.

When you look at one tattoo to the next, there is a lot of differences.

Judges, time to announce who had the best tattoos of the day.

I think that Golden Skull did really great.

Yep.

For me, I think it's Empire State.

Both look like the man.

Both look like the same tattoo.

Can't get past the top of the hair on Marvin's tattoo.

I'm leaning towards Golden Skull, but I think they're both bad-ass tattoos.

I'm Golden Skull.

That's your call?

Final decision?

Golden Skull.

Oliver.

Empire State.

I'm going to have to say Golden Skull.

My decision is Golden Skull.

The judges have decided the best tattoos of the day.

Go to Golden Skull.

I didn't see that coming.

All right, guys, as the jury appears, you must all deliberate and put one shop up for elimination.

Head back to the lot.

We need to all make sure that we are on the same plan here.

Artistic and Allegory easily had the bottom tattoos.

We need to get rid of at least one of them, because this is a numbers game at this point.

I think they're going to deflect onto YouTube.

When we go down there today, point out flaws and tattoos, we just got to be paying attention.

If we're going to take control, we need to take control.

We're going to get rid of these people.

This is the best time to do it.

It is Allegory's time.

They've been in the bottom many times.

Fourth time.

Fourth time.

They go down.

If they go down.

It's their turn to go.

Fourth time, and you're out.

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

I would just say unkindness.

It shouldn't be on the bottom.

Aaron's was so good.

Coming to a competition and not even practicing a portrait.

That's just ballsy.

But I felt like I tried my hardest.

It essentially is the Achilles heel.

Like, I him.

All right, you could cough and say stupid things like bull .

Yeah, but your heel should have been all you were practicing then.

If you zoom in, there's a lot of technical points.

Sure.

I think if we're calling out technical stuff.

Classic trilogy.

This thing has a lot of choppy, weirdly put-in blacks and.

I feel like theirs look just as different as what Al's did.

There is a divide, but it's not as big as your guys.

Al's both looked like the girl, where neither of these look like the girl.

I feel like I actually have more issues with allegory.

This doesn't look like a human child.

I don't think it was that bad.

The lips are black.

The eyes are black.

The only place I actually used black was her pupils.

But it looks black.

I think this looks more like a first-time portrait than it is.

I agree.

I feel like a little bit more strongly about classic trilogies just because they don't match.

And the technical aspect isn't as strong as Eva and Ulysses.

That's where I'm at.

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

Who do you guys think are on the chopping block to go home?

Technically, the worst tattoo of the day is Doom Kid.

But does Doom get off the hook because Aaron's is so nice?

Definitely not.

But it looks more like the girl than Allegory Arts.

Neither of these tattoos look like each other, nor do they look like the child.

How did the eyes that occurred on Eva's face, how does that even occur?

It's a difficult picture, but you see the same mistakes replicated that aren't even in the

picture.

So it's almost like the blind leading the blind.

And then, artistics, these things.

Wow.

They must have wasted four and a half hours on that little sweater and collar and about an

hour and a half on the face.

I'd rather have classic in the bottom.

I don't think either one of them captured a portrait style tattoo or this face.

They just look different.

The jury of peers is deliberating right now, and they're going to put a shop up for elimination.

So they could help us make this decision.

Yeah.

It's rough, man.

Portrait day is always tricky.

Do you guys think one person misstepping on a team is worse than two people?

I don't, but they really hammered him.

Like, really.

They hammered me hard.

All right, jury of peers.

Which shop are you sending down for elimination?

The jury of peers has voted allegory art.

All right, we'll see allegory arts, artistic skin design, and classic trilogy.

See everybody downstairs.

Man, you guys missed that one.

Yeah.

By the skin of our goddamn teeth.

I think you're wearing a steak dinner on that one.

All right, guys.

Let's do it.

All right.

Today, you had to prove that your precision is on point.

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

All right, jury appears.

Why did you vote Allegory Arts to the bottom?

This was the cutest, most adorable subject.

And that's not what the tattoos look like.

Guys, there's a lot of things here that are off.

The discrepancy in the eyes, the whys in the nose, just a huge head shaker.

But they look closer to the same artist than Classic Trilogies does.

When I put a face that was more accurate to the photo.

Yeah, I think that you look at classic trilogies, neither one of them look like the photo,

and neither one of them look like each other.

And then you get into the technical aspect, and it's so haphazardly done.

If they both looked exactly like yours, Derek, I would have no problem.

I'd definitely drop the ball.

This application is just messy.

Just look at the hair, and you're like, what is that?

But it is a woman, artistic skin design.

If you're not looking at the kid, they look like little old men.

Both these tattoos have a very undone feel for me.

Normally, when I do portraits, I build up layers, and there is no building up layers.

Well, I think you just panic.

It started getting red, and you're like, damn, I don't want to put no more ink.

But sometimes, you just got to trust your skill.

If you would have tattooed the rest of the portrait at the level you tattooed the clothing,

you wouldn't have been there, you know?

Well, we do have to make a decision here.

When it's this close, I just got to look at that first glance.

And when I first glance at Classic Trilogy, it's like, ah!

My vote's for Classic Trilogy.

Too much of a mess.

Classic Trilogy.

I'm just a canvas, and Allegory looks like a weird kid.

My vote is for Allegory.

I'd rather wear Derek's tattoo than any of Allegory.

But it's a competition, and it's not what I want.

It's what the competition wants.

So they did them exactly alike.

They did them different.

I guess I would have to say classic.

The judges have decided classic trilogy tattoo.

You do not have what it takes to be master shop.

You guys tattoo a little different, and I think that's what got you here.

Learn from this.

Hell yeah.

Please pack your machines and move out.

That was an interesting development.

Yeah.

There's the alliance in the house, and we have a little nickname for them.

We call them the cool kids.

And who do cool kids pick on?

The nerds.

I think that's the thing that's more frustrating, losing two poorly done babies over, you

know, anything else.

But whatever.

It was definitely persuaded down there.

So I take it sort of as a backhanded compliment.

Like, obviously, they saw us as a threat.

I think in this place, we showed them what classic trilogy tattoos provides.

Every client was happy, and that made me happy.

Hell yeah.

Yeah, man.

Let's go do some more.

On the next episode.

of Ink Master.

At the end, if it's one strong player and a weaker player that was just dragging the other

weaker teams along, you think that's right?

This got hot in here.

Your application sucked.

They didn't say one goddamn thing about my application.

What?

Don't go too big.

I'm not.

Don't let this guy send you home.

I'm not bringing it.

I'm going down guns blazing.

It is not what you did.

The style is totally different.

It's not.

The challenge is the challenge.

One of the premier teams is going to go home.

I don't .

who leaves or how, everybody has to go for me to win.