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On the last episode of Ink Master Shop Wars, the competition intensified as a

shop housing two veterans return.

Lalo and Picasso.

Two returning veterans?

It's odd now.

You guys honestly came in the lion's den with meat hanging around your neck.

We have zero intentions of making it easy on anybody who walks in that door.

In the elimination tattoo.

Weak links were exposed.

You and your teammate must each tattoo a cherub on the same canvas at the same time.

Dave's style is totally different from mine.

Just make sure you just keep the skin tight.

The stencil keeps wiping off.

I'm literally melting down.

Neither of y'all did a tattoo better than me.

Both of y'all lines are .

You're being obnoxious.

These are horrible tattoos.

They are not horrible.

You're not going to come at me and expect me to not come at y'all.

I'm not playing that game.

In The Elimination, Allegory Arts.

Think before you ain't.

And Tri-Cities were the bottom three shops.

Allegory Arts.

Technically, you jacked them up.

I think the flaws that we have in our tattoos are very minimal compared to the other two.

You can see a blowout in the top of D-Tat stars.

Halo, the hell out of here.

No one's brought up Tri-Cities tattoos.

Bang's legs almost connect on a blowout.

Today was the day to not show us those mistakes.

The judges have decided.

Tri-Cities tattoo.

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 prize and the title of master shop.

All only

one mistake from going home.

I feel like the alliance is more important than ever right now.

I feel like if we're all down at the jury of peers, it's our responsibility to really defend

each other like we're not the worst ones.

So veterans still get ?

canvases, take the shot.

It's undeniable that this is a clicky situation.

Yeah, we immediately came in with targets on our back.

Do you think this would be a wise time for the vets to put strategy together?

I don't really see why the strategy, you know?

I want to win this because I'm good and I'm a badass.

I don't think a team situation is going to help me.

Welcome, artists.

Each week, this competition gets more intense.

You make it to the end, you'll earn $200,000, a feature in Inked Magazine,

and the title of Ink Master.

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

Standing in your way are the next returning veterans.

From Las Vegas, Nevada, one competed in season three and one competed in season four.

Representing Black Spade Tattoo, King Ruck, and E.S.

We're both alpha males.

We're going to get in there knocking shoulders, elbows with everybody else.

This time, victory is ours.

Man, oh, man.

This thing's got a lot of design flaws.

You lost the shape of the tiger completely.

This was a failed attempt from the design alone.

This simple, bold, traditional tattoo, anybody should have been able to knock it out of the

goddamn park.

We came in this nose down, ready to fight, tackle anything.

I'm ready to win.

ES and I competed together last time in season three.

Is he someone I'm scared of in any way?

No.

And King Ruck, do I give a ?

No.

Guys, welcome back.

What's changed since the last time you guys were here?

I'm about 100 times stronger artistically, mentally, so I came to flex.

I didn't play the game.

The game played me last time.

I'm ready to play.

King Ruck, NES, 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 fast as you return.

Why don't you head over and join the group?

This week, we're testing composition.

Composition is a bunch of elements that's put together to form one whole piece.

Corona believes it's the little things you do to seize the moment that help you live your

best life.

Today, you must give your canvases a permanent reminder of whatever it is that they do to

live their best life.

Each canvas has a different way of making these moments better.

And it's up to you to translate that to the skin.

It's a little hard to translate someone's feelings into a picture, but if you're a really

good illustrator, you can illustrate anything.

You must use composition to perfectly place each element in your tattoo.

Today, you must collaborate with your teammate.

You decide who tattoos and when.

You're only as good as your weakest link.

This is your chance to put the driver in the driver's seat who's going to make this thing

get you a win.

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

As a self-pronounced team leader, I know it is the best for us to make sure that I tattoo

and D could just take some notes.

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

tattoo.

Let's meet your canvases.

All right, canvases, tell us about the tattoo that will remind you to live your best life.

Meditating yogi on my right thigh.

A musical theme on my left thigh.

The luchador tattoo on my right arm.

A ballerina holding a bowling ball on my ribs.

A bowling ballerina on the, no, this is, no, no.

Fashion design piece on my right forearm.

Combination of graffiti and art tools on my right calf.

Graffiti.

Now that's some .

that I could do.

Unkindness art.

You won the last elimination tattoo, so you get the power to pick your canvas.

This is definitely an advantage that I wanted.

There's a lot of really weird ideas today.

Which canvas do you choose?

I think we're going to go for the luchador.

Damn.

Remaining canvases, one by one, please pick a skull.

House of Monkey.

Mr.

Universe, bring the yogi to Dalai Lalo.

Artistic skin design.

What's that one?

Ribs.

Allegory arts.

Classic trilogy tattoo.

Think before you ink.

Pins and needles.

Old town ink.

Black spade tattoo.

Couldn't get better than that.

Coming in hot right out the gate.

This means your expectations are twice as high now, because that's what you do.

OK, guys, you have four hours.

And your time begins.

Now, where's this going?

Left forearm.

Sweet.

I want it to be centered around fashion design.

OK, wonderful.

Sometimes the canvases have a very clear idea of what they want.

The monkey guy, the spray can, the samurai.

And other times, they just have a laundry list of crazy items they want all put together into

one tattoo.

I want basically musical notes, an old-style microphone, and some roses on the background.

It takes a good artist and great composition to make sense out of all that.

You know, this is what you like to do.

So I surf and fishing is obviously the biggest one.

I grew up in a lake.

He loves fishing.

I love fishing.

These are both our happy places.

I can totally relate to this guy.

All right, here we go.

After the terrible critique that we got in the Cherub Challenge.

These are the worst tattoos y'all done since y'all got here.

You two worked the best together and seemingly the worst apart.

I'm definitely a lot more determined to get the win on this one.

You can call that from New School all season low.

All of our canvases have been fans of cartoon things.

Luckily for us, guess what he wants?

New School.

I'm not going to deny this guy some New School tattoos.

If you crush it, you can't really say much, right?

Three hours to go.

Three hours remaining, guys.

So this whole thing is black?

Yep.

DJ's taking the lead on this.

This design's really simple, but I feel like this one's a little too simple.

dull down the colors a bit.

I keep trying to add other things.

Should I do like a little thing around these bottom of the eyes?

I don't like that.

It's a little frustrating.

I'm still going to use the dark gray on these keys because the background is going to be black.

We need to win this flash challenge.

Swing me the image with the line work in it.

Just put it over here.

D-Tad is not going to be tattooing at all because he was shaking off with the last challenge.

Just so he could sit back, recollect himself, and just watch and see what these judges are

really critiquing us on.

Can you pump my chair up a little bit for me, bro?

Higher.

Less I got to bend over, the better.

One hour remaining.

How you doing, fam?

Perfect.

Our route is graffiti.

Anytime you go to that wall, you got at least a couple dozen people painting sometimes.

And it's a competition every time, no matter what.

Everybody's swinging pretty strong.

So make sure everything is on point.

This is just another battle, basically.

So we're going to fight this.

15 minutes.

What are you going to do?

You don't have time to get on the face.

And the face and the skin is great.

Nope.

Tell me that.

Well, then you can tell me whatever you want.

This looks unfinished.

I told you we should do something more simple.

It's already bad enough that there's a lot of pressure here.

And if I can't incorporate what I'm trying to add to it, then you're going to kill the contrast.

OK.

Well, then I guess we're done, right?

Don't you want to put color here and on the jewelry?

You might as well just finish it, because what I see and what you see are two different things.

No, I see what you say, but then we need like an hour more.

Well, just knock it out.

Not like losing.

I'm not a loser.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

That's it.

Machines down.

Time is up.

Very nice.

Very cool.

This is real dope.

D-Chat didn't even tattoo.

You might as well just call him D-Napstar if he's going to sit around and sleep all day.

OK, artists.

Time to get into these critiques.

Black Spade tattoo.

Guys, I think you did a clean piece, but the thing that makes your composition fall short

is not the layout.

It's the contrast.

From the jawbone to the can, very similar tones.

Those elements aren't visible, and you lose the depth.

You got the luck of the draw.

You guys are the graffiti guys, and you this piece up.

Artistic skin design.

You have this foreground that is identifiable from across the room.

Compositionally, it's put together really beautifully.

Details in the fish are great.

Line work, color, shading, everything looks top notch.

Pins and needles.

I really like the composition.

This is a loose, freer, more open design.

I think it's drawn very well, and I think it's tattooed equally as nice.

Thank you.

Classic trilogy tattoo.

Doing the new school and doing your style plays into a little more freedom in the composition.

The only thing is you have one specific thing as opposed to something with another object

or a background to create more composition.

Yeah, we see what you're saying.

Unkindness art.

The little details in the mask, the little seam up the center, really, really look nice.

But you also got to remember, today's composition isn't the most dynamic composition in the

room.

Next team up is House of Monkey.

Well, guys, I like the design.

But I think that compositionally, you could have had an interesting ending.

It just looks unfinished.

Old Town Ink.

It's a very clean tattoo.

The outline and the color saturation in this thing are pretty spotless.

But it's not a really dynamic composition.

Allegory Arts.

I like the flow of the ballerina tutu.

That bright, solid patch of red behind it does play necessary for the composition to pull

together.

It's very simple and very deliberate.

Think before you ink.

These black halos, it doesn't do anything compositionally for your tattoo.

It makes it just a very hard ending.

It's a little bit stale.

The people today that do something dynamic, that's the one that's going to get it.

The ones that are just the stale stamps are going to fall short.

When the best person on your team is the only person who tattoos, and it still comes out as

a bad tattoo, that's not Ink Master material.

I'm not going to do the background.

OK.

Now I'm in freaking panic mode.

Pass out.

Are you kidding me?

I do not want to go home on an unfinished tattoo.

Today, we're testing composition.

We got Black Spade Tattoo, ES, and King Ruck back again.

The whole design was a little bit muddy.

Unless they've gotten a lot better than they were last time they were here, they might just

be in and out.

Let's talk about artistic skin design.

One of the only tattoos of the day that I walked up on and thought, wow, this is impressive.

You have a beautiful underwater scene.

You have a sky scene.

You have a background.

You have the foreground of the fish.

You have a lure.

These guys swung for the fences in the time they had.

Allegory Arts is another tattoo that's really strong.

It looks interesting.

It's not just a spot.

They had to juggle a bunch of things to get in there, so the way it ended up being composed,

this tattoo was solid.

Have we agreed on a win?

Yeah.

Let's let them know.

Corona believes to live your best life, you must appreciate each moment.

Today, you had to give your canvases a permanent reminder of what they do to seize the moment.

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

skin design.

There was a scene.

There was composition.

There's foreground, background, stuff coming out of stuff.

That's the extra mile.

We need an advantage because we bombed last week.

We can finally start playing the game to make sure that the people that we don't want in the

house are not in the house.

April and Dane, congratulations.

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

I don't care who has control of the skull pit.

At this point, Dana Napril's only strategy is to come at us.

But I'm used to it.

I could care less.

Bring it on.

All of you can head back to the loft.

Congratulations.

It was a pretty sweet tattoo.

I don't think it was that good of a tattoo.

The go-to motion shouldn't be for everyone to get mad at us because you guys didn't win.

We literally had a perfect critique.

There was nothing wrong with ours.

They said your composition was stale.

You guys should do not new school, and you'll win.

Well, we did what the canvas wanted.

So if we choose skulls, do you guys want a new school tattoo, or do you guys want a realism

tattoo?

Give us a realism tattoo.

You got it.

While you're setting it up, these new veterans come in here.

Send them home.

Welcome to the elimination tattoo.

This is your chance to prove that your shop deserves $200,000 and the first ever title of

Master Shop.

ES and King Ruck, as the veteran artists, it's on your shop to prove that you deserve to be

here by overcoming your weaknesses.

And in their honor, you'll all be judged on composition.

There's no better test of composition than tattooing a color realistic battle.

A color realistic battle?

There's no way you can do all that in six hours.

Oh, my goodness.

It's going to be a frickin' show.

Whether it's one-on-one combat scenes or ships at war, your battle scene must have clear composition

so it's easy to tell what's happening.

For this tattoo, once again, you'll be collaborating with your teammate.

Which one of you tattoos and when is completely up to you as a team?

So should D-Tab go take a nap now?

Watch yourself, bro.

More than one battle to be fought today.

I'm ready.

All right.

This is a color realistic tattoo.

Anything that doesn't exist in the real world is out.

The biggest thing is composition.

I'm pretty sure some of these are pretty tough to pull off.

But it's a good thing you're working in pairs.

Got four hands, two heads.

Make it happen.

Let's meet your canvases.

Artistic skin design.

Your shop won the flash challenge.

That means you have the power to assign the canvases.

In this battle, you have the upper hand.

Choose carefully.

What is you looking to get?

Gladiator battling a lion on my calf.

Cool.

OK.

Sweet.

With this skull pick, we're definitely going to be looking out for our lions.

Celtic warrior princess battling a dark warrior on my back.

Also, we're going to gun for the veterans no matter who they are.

Pearl Harbor scene with ships in battle on my left arm.

How big are you wanting it?

As big as possible.

Right now, we're going to get to see if Dane and April are really loyal to our alliance.

I call realistic American revolutionary soldiers crossing the river on my back.

Hopefully, their goal is to bring down our enemies.

Biking battle on the shore with biking boats in the background on my back.

Oh, so it's not just a battle now.

It's water and land and people and ships.

What in the hell is wrong with these people?

Color realistic Romanesque warriors in a battle for justice on my left bicep.

How in the are you supposed to show justice in a tattoo?

Are you willing to move that?

I'm pretty set on that right there.

OK, you got it.

This is for you.

Having control over everyone is awesome.

Kind of makes you feel like a mastermind.

I'm into it.

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

Unkindness art.

Allegory arts.

Black spade tattoo.

Damn.

We got hit hard.

Classic trilogy tattoo.

Pins and needles.

House of monkeys.

Think before you ink.

Think before you ink.

You better think hard before you make this dumbass tattoo.

Old town ink.

Cha-ching.

You'll have six hours to tattoo a color realistic battle.

Based on your work, one shop will be out.

Good luck.

What's up, buddy?

DJ.

Nice to meet you.

This elimination tattoo is a real curveball.

It's color realistic battle scenes.

And the key word of today is composition.

I want to get some soldiers in the American Revolution crossing a river about to go into battle.

All the elements of your tattoo have to be placed in a believable manner to give this tattoo

the realistic feel we're looking for.

This is what I'm thinking.

Like you said, the boats and all that.

One far, far in the back, one closer in the middle, and then a Viking's face in the front

so close we could see the gleam in his eye.

I don't know, man.

What the is this?

You know that there's timing involved.

Making boats in the scene, it's all good, but it's still, I've got a dope idea.

We're not even on the same page.

Like, we haven't even started.

This isn't just your tattoo, player.

What is it exactly that you were looking to get again?

Warrior princess fighting attack warrior.

But we need to add an element that he's getting the .

out of him.

Right.

I want a look on her face.

That's just badass.

She's standing over him.

She's got her sword sort of resting on him.

Gowns can't look perfect.

I want blood.

I want holes.

We thought we had the best canvas.

She said one thing in the lineup, and now she's telling us a million different things that

she wants.

We're working with six hours.

This is easily a 25-hour tattoo.

Yeah.

There are just elements that I'm not willing to compromise on.

If she's not willing to work with us, then this whole thing's going to turn into a show.

That bull bull, that was real low.

You didn't tattoo during your flash challenge.

What do you expect me to say?

That was my choice and my team's choice.

If you ever pull some like that.

Don't point to me like that.

You can't take a joke, bro.

That was a joke?

Were you sleeping during your tattoo?

I was sleeping during my day.

Dude, it was a joke.

You called your whole team out.

I mean, DJ even cringed on that one.

Him carrying your weight through these last couple of tattoos, that puts a little extra pressure.

Oh, you think so, too?

DJ's a far superior tattoo artist than you.

We're still beating you in every challenge.

So if you guys think you guys suck and DJ is awesome, well, you guys equally suck.

OK, artists, you have six hours to tattoo.

If you fail, for you, this battle is over.

And your time starts now.

Let's put this thing started.

We're testing composition by giving these artists color realistic battle scenes.

This is kind of what we're thinking.

It's beautiful.

Cool.

Yay.

Awesome.

There's many different elements that are occurring at once.

There's movement.

You have flesh.

You have cloth.

There's a foreground.

And you have a background.

And that all takes composition to execute.

Lay this down first, and then I'll do the background.

Yeah, I'm with it.

ES has this huge background and all this stuff going on.

I'm going up here with the clouds a little something, with the light rays.

I'm not good with it at all, but I don't have time to be pissed off.

We need to get this thing rocking.

Hit the contour that you showed me.

Don't even come in on the nose.

Don't come in on the mouth.

Just do that outside of the face.

Got it.

I am going to take my man, D-Tat, up off the bench.

I'm making sure that we work on this tattoo as a complete 50-50 team.

So knock out the nine on this one, and then just move to the next one.

Cool.

I don't want to hear from nobody.

I can do this, and that's that.

We've been in this bottom too many times.

Made Rich is not meant for the bottom.

This has to be our week.

Do you want to do anything above it?

Yeah, like we can do like a little trail here, detail-y stuff in front of the boat.

I'm definitely giving my input on this one.

I'm making sure that DJ hears me.

Looking good, DJ.

If he listens to me and if I listen to him, I think we can pull this off.

That's dope.

Keep underestimating me while we keep winning.

You got three hours left, guys.

Three more hours.

I need room because I would like to do the background super simple.

Lalo doesn't understand that in order to have composition, you need something huge in the

foreground to balance out everything in the background.

Yeah, I got it.

Picasso gets crazy, and he wants to show the world what he can do.

But dude, we don't have the time for that.

I thought he was getting stressed out.

He used to grow up.

That's what he used to do.

He's an amazing artist.

But in his mind, the word simple is a bad thing.

This is your final hour.

One hour left.

I thought you said you wanted to soften up the top.

It's pretty soft as it is.

I want the top to look a little more even with the bottom.

The only battle in this situation is our canvas battling with us.

I'm just not seeing your background, and I'm not picturing it on the tattoo, and I'm worried

that it's going to not look good.

Yeah, but as artists, we like to give you something that we see as well as a collaboration

together.

But it's my tattoo, so give me a minute.

OK.

Now I'm in freaking panic mode.

We're trying to give her best tattoo, and she's second-guessing everything we're doing.

This is .

Crazy.

So when you do the cuffs, these cuffs are leather, not the skin, but it's the same brown zone

right now.

OK.

Our goal to make this tattoo stand out is to play on a good foreground, a battle scene in

the middle, and then a nice background to accent it.

My only nervous thought is, did we go too big?

You guys are going to stop for a minute.

Get my head in.

Breathe nice and slow.

I feel like I'm going to pass out.

Try some of this.

The sugar in your system is going to help.

Here, you passed out.

Pass out.

Hey, you want this?

Tim.

Tim.

Tim, you like it?

There you go, buddy.

It's all right, man.

It's all right.

Need some sugar or something?

Get the chair up.

Go heat up.

Are you kidding me?

I do not want to go home on an unfinished tattoo.

Slow breaths, man.

You'll be all right.

Welcome back.

So I want you to do what you want to do with the dress.

OK.

And I'm not going to do the background.

OK.

I feel like a lot of this comes down to this girl not being able to sit for a six-hour tattoo.

Jess, do you want me to get in or you go?

I just, I think you tattoo a little more gently.

No worries.

You're good.

Yeah, that's fine.

This girl is insane.

Absolutely.

Four, three, two, one.

That's it.

Machines down.

Time is up.

No more ink.

OK.

Oh, my god.

I would love to be able to do a lot more to it.

We.

Killed this challenge, man.

Most of these other people, they ain't even finished.

I mean, hopefully we get to stick around.

I .

That was, like, so relieving.

I feel like this competition just started.

I really think Think Before You Ink are just delusional.

My daughter could draw better than this.

And she's five.

Arcane was passed out.

What's your excuse?

What's up with the cosmic gladiators?

You had the Etch and Sketch wreck.

Shut the up.

Those hands are jacked.

And you put that on somebody.

Y'all got to shape it up.

Today's just a blood bath for everybody.

You mother the bed today.

It's terrible.

If our client didn't pass out, we would have finished.

Dude, I don't know.

We stuck to the composition and the challenge more than pins and needles did.

Just in my defense, I shaved my leg.

I was ready to tattoo myself.

Really?

You should have just did it.

For the competition, that would have been the best call.

You ain't got the same.

Bro, you got the same.

Your looks like it's melting, all right?

You have to etch and sketch, right?

Dude, admit your was up, bro.

My was smoking yours.

Admit it.

Zip that .

They're a canvas that walked out, but that tattoo is still better than the piece of you put

on somebody's body.

My was finished, and your will be in the bottom.

Today, you had to create battle scenes with clear composition.

ES and King Ruck.

This challenge was designed to test your weaknesses.

Let's see how you did.

Black Spade tattoo, you're up first.

You got a lot of compositional problems.

See that guy standing way off there in the water?

Look at the size of his hand.

Now look at the size of the hand of the guy in the foreground that's holding the ax.

Those two hands are pretty close to the same size.

And one guy appears to be 75 yards downwind.

That's a composition issue.

Are these guys half bodies underwater?

No, I was trying to do a rolling fog.

The elements in here need to look like what they are.

I think you guys lose it in this one.

Pins and needles.

Was there a conflict when you got going with this canvas?

Oh, my god.

She didn't want to trust us on any aspect.

Aside from it not looking like a battle scene, and aside from the problems with the canvas

and blah, blah, blah, you drew those hands.

Those hands are jacked.

And you put that on somebody.

I would have quit too.

You win your client over in the beginning, and you make them shut up by impressing them with

a beautiful drawing.

Your art speaks louder than anything.

Artwork, first and foremost.

That's how you get the title.

Unkindness art.

Compositionally, you've got a cool, active character in the foreground.

You've got the lion, which is the shining moment of the drawing.

But his paws are kind of like off to the side.

It's not ferocious.

It's kind of whimpering away.

You missed an opportunity to make this look even more embattled.

Artistic skin design.

The best part of this tattoo is the flying decapitated head.

The background is just so haphazardly done that it doesn't help your composition at all.

The tattoo would be better if you had not put the little light gray mountains across the back.

It's not the worst portrayal of realistic battle of the day, but it's not close to the best.

So I'm going to fall so far.

Classic Trilogy Tattoo.

What's missing from this?

There's a rock face that rides the ridgeline.

And the clouds in the sky were going to be like a washed out blue.

A lot of time spent in that green.

It looks like a battle scene that has the same color green in the hatchet blades that it does

in the background with a little darker shade than that in the loin cloth and a muddier shade

than that in the pants.

Yeah, that came into my mind shortly after putting the grass in.

You guys went nuts in this thing.

Drastically under-finished tattoo.

And the 20 minutes that he has passed out is not the reason.

Old Town Inc.

The composition is great.

You see the foreground, you've got a couple little images floating up close, the ship sitting

nicely on the plane in the water, and then you have the horizon line in the back.

It gives it depth.

You've got a tiny little inference of these palm trees in the background to show that this

is, in fact, Hawaii.

You guys did a beautiful tattoo.

You worked your asses off in six hours.

There you go.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Allegory Arts.

As far as the composition of this,

It would have been a lot nicer to have the back of his shoulder and do something more beautiful

in the actual foreground of the robe.

If you look at the way that you colored the forehead, see how strong that looks?

Because you left it open.

All the other stuff that you guys forced in and all that color, totally unnecessary, right?

You could have cut your time in half and just been set.

Think before you aim.

As far as composition goes, you got one guy going one way, one guy going the other, and a

bunch of scribbly stuff in the background.

The shape of the swords look like a feather fight.

Those are the shapes that the gladiators had, though.

I got you, but the way yours look, look like they're bending, like, I'll hit you back.

It looks playful.

The guy on the left is wearing a Spartan helmet.

What helmet is the guy on the right wearing?

Samurai!

We wanted them to be different.

Well, they're different, different continents.

As far as doing anything real,

The hand's not real.

The arm's not real.

So you're not competing.

House of Monkey.

There's not composition here.

It's a stagnant figure with just a horizon line and a couple of boats.

This huge field of color behind this guy.

No.

Huge wasted time for you.

Returning veterans, you guys know the traps for artists who go so big in these challenges.

I take the blame for that.

I got ambitious.

Thank you.

Look at Bubba, you know?

Bubba learned from being here, and he's

You know what I mean?

And you guys have those same tools.

Thank you.

OK, judges, it is time to announce Tattoo of the Day.

There's no debate in my mind that it's Old Town.

I don't think anybody else in the room gets close to hitting it.

Congratulations, guys.

Old Town Ink, best tattoo of the day.

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

Head back to the lot.

Except DJ and Bubba, we all failed.

I didn't get to give the client a finished piece.

But an unfinished tattoo can be worked on later.

A busted-ass tattoo was .

I'm pointing at you.

Your tattoo was garbage.

Bro, you was about to go over your dark green with light greens in one session.

Yeah, that's called a technique.

In one session.

Maybe we didn't manage our time right.

Maybe we should have gone smaller.

But your was .

I know, but I'd never put a tie-dyed piece of on somebody either.

It wasn't a tie-dyed piece of .

I don't know which green is worse, the blob or the swirl.

We're here, as a jury appears, to decide what shop goes down for elimination.

Just throw up the elephant in the room and put us up first.

Go ahead.

Classic trilogy up first.

The green is so solid.

Too solid.

Their tattoo at least has redeeming qualities.

Like, the anatomy is pretty good.

It looks like they should both be fighting each other.

Is there another unfinished tattoo that's worse than these?

It might not be the best quality and have all the colors in there, but this will pass as a

finished tattoo.

Are you taking into consideration that there's no battle scene here?

No one here met the battle challenge except for one team.

Yeah, so we got to throw that out right here.

So everybody's off the board for that one.

Think before, you said theirs was finished, and I feel like that's a bigger problem, thinking

that's finished.

Why do the lines on him not touch?

We want to talk about lines not meeting Black Spade.

This is .

All throughout. This is .

All throughout.

This is still applied better.

What?

These look like two different tattoos.

But it looks like a battle scene.

Looks like some are gonna die.

Your sail lines are call them shaking.

For me, when it comes to a design, your guys' drawing from the get-go was just wrong.

And it's actually my biggest pet peeve to not think before you ink.

Testing composition today, and we got a multitude of tattoos to choose for the bottom of the

day.

Let's pick a few.

Pins and needles didn't do .

The sad little guy walking away that's like an emo warrior that's just all poorly done.

But it's not as ugly as some of the other ones.

Oliver, her client said, you're jacking me up.

you guys.

That one makes way more sense than Black Spain.

The drawing, the composition, the techniques.

But I would argue that it is not as bad as Think for You, Inc.

I don't know.

Talking to these guys is like talking to a brick wall.

They're not going to take your critique.

This is what they have to offer.

It's safe to say that these guys are one of the bottoms today.

Let's talk about classic trilogy tattoo.

That big green mess.

Just block it in green, and I'll deal with it later.

No.

Right.

They got to be down here.

Well, you know what is going to be interesting?

Yeah.

Jury appears.

That might change our dynamic.

Let's get them down here and see what happens.

I don't even know who's going to go down.

I think we're definitely going down.

We're definitely going.

Oh.

All right, jury of peers, who are you sending up for an elimination?

Jury of peers has voted Think Before You Ink to the bottom.

All right, we'll see Think Before You Ink, Classic Trilogy Tattoo, and Pins and Needles.

And everybody else downstairs.

All right, let's hit it.

Let's go do this.

All right.

Over with.

Today, you had to prove that you've mastered composition.

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

Let's hear it from the jury of peers.

Why did you vote Think Before You Ink to the bottom?

I feel like the majority just picked the tattoo that we found the least appealing.

Yet again, yet again.

Do you feel that that's a personal thing?

Of course.

It's just fundamentally, man.

Color doesn't mean a line.

Could you call yourself Ink Master doing that?

I'm good with the piece.

It's just serious me.

It is serious and I'm seriously standing by my piece.

Rich and Detat, I don't feel like you're unjustly in the bottom.

There's technical problems throughout.

The line work has problems.

The black shading has problems all over the place.

But I do know there's two guys that are about to have a feather fight.

I know it's happening.

But what's realistic about that?

Nothing's realistic.

Of the three, it's the least realistic.

Oh, no.

What's realistic about the girls?

Well, first of all, there is anatomy that is proportion.

Where?

She has no right shoulder.

She's a shoulderless woman.

We have decent anatomy on ours.

I just can't see it.

That green, when you go into it with some highlights or some tones like you were saying.

But guys, that is not the technique that's going to finish a one sitting tattoo in six hours.

Oh, we've learned that.

We're not disagreeing whatsoever.

No.

We have three challenge tattoos here.

The problem I have is if somebody cruises in the middle of your work, that's the ultimate

slap in the face.

So I take it you're voting to send pins and needles out of here.

There's only one element of a battle.

It's half the work that the other two teams put in.

So I'm obligated to make my decision for you guys to go home.

Oliver, pins and needles does have a few areas where you do see smooth color transitions.

Classic Trilogy had a bad game plan.

But if I had to say which one of these three tattoos had the most technical problems, I got

to go with it before you think.

It's hard for me to let that slide.

It's really difficult, man, because hens and needles didn't really do much of a battle, nor

is it finished.

But overall, the tattoo looks cleaner.

I'm going with think before you ink.

The judges have decided, think before you ink.

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

The two of you working together just didn't come out the same.

That was your struggles while you're here, and you guys were kind of doomed from the start.

Please pack your machines and move out.

The chips didn't fall how we planned for them to.

Yeah.

This group of friends knew to keep us down there enough that eventually we go.

Exactly.

This house damn sure wasn't the same thing I walked out of last time.

I walked into a completely different monster.

You realize we have to battle more than the judges.

That's when it got.

I wasn't trying to hear nothing that none of the other artists had to say for it.

I know.

And I'm proud of the fact that we got eliminated with the tattoo we were proud of.

I came in here completely true to myself.

I'm going to be talking rich.

And this is going to be cool, calm, and collective D.

And that's what the hell we did.

We'll be good, bro.

We will be.

On the next episode of Ink Master.

We've kind of hit a groove with the alliance.

All this friend bull .

Cool comic, collect it till the time is right, and then we'll strike.

Do us proud, Lalo.

I got it.

We in this together.

Yeah.

You yourself.

This is my whole life.

You guys haven't seen me flex yet.

This quality of work is not going to last.

I can tell you that right now.

Either or get off the pot.

Not solid.

It's not smooth.

What's coming next is going to knock you guys out of the box.