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On the last episode of Ink Master, Return of the Masters.

Definitely shade off the bevel.

Team Anthony has Juan, super ego.

DJ has Josh, super ego.

I don't have one of those guys.

I have soldiers ready to fight and win this thing.

Make sure you give me black where black goes, baby.

Dark.

Team Steve dominated the Flash Challenge.

The winner of today's Flash Challenge is Roley.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

Personally, I would love to try to take Josh out.

I'm down to help anyone that is trying to take Team DJ out.

This is the moment of truth.

Roley, step up to the plate.

In the elimination tattoo, Team Anthony felt Roley betrayed them.

I'm just pissed at Roley right now.

Give me the rib tattoo.

I can't figure out who the hell you guys are targeting.

I handed out skull pigs the way I felt like I needed to.

Ah, you know what?

I'm not even listening to .

I'm going to target everybody.

In the elimination.

Jeremy, Deanna, and Amanda were the bottom three artists.

Deanna.

This thing looks beat in there.

This is wall to wall over saturation just pounded.

Jeremy, there's a messiness to the whole piece.

Pick a point and go to the other side of the frame.

They're not the same.

Amanda.

The fact that you can color yellow up to a line and it takes the line out, that line is not

in there.

I did choose the wrong line weights for a lot of this tattoo.

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

Nine artists remain, but only one will earn a $100,000 prize and

the title of Ink Master.

Team Steve, two skull pigs, two of our people have gone home.

And he pretty much gave Josh tattoo of the day.

They're feeding their team and our team at this point.

We cannot drop the ball anymore.

A new competition started today.

That's the way I see it.

There's no reason we cannot be standing there together in the end.

Josh assumes that he already has a spot, and he's just trying to figure out who the other

two are.

Every time you guys interact with Josh, let him know he's screwed.

Good morning, you're screwed.

Hey, what are you doing?

You're screwed.

We're here to look out for our family, and that's it.

Welcome, guys.

Morning.

In this competition, only the strongest artists survive.

To make it to the end, you must have the endurance to outlast your competitors every single

week.

Damn right.

Only one of you will earn $100,000, a feature in Inked Magazine, and the title of Ink Master.

As it works out, all the teams are even, three people on each team.

Only three people are going to the finale.

If anybody had dreams of having their team be the three people on the stage, now's the time

not to lose anybody.

This is the time.

Really start listening to the coaches.

And coaches, you got a coach.

It's time to step in.

If they do a up drawing, grab it and throw it in the trash.

Because now it's your cash on the line.

This week, we are testing accuracy.

Accuracy is the ability to place lines and shading exactly where you mean to.

If you can't accurately depict whatever you're trying to tattoo, you will have failed immediately.

Today, there is no flash challenge.

Your first chance to save yourself from elimination is happening right now.

Wow.

you must compete in a marathon designed to put your teamwork, strategy, and skills to the

ultimate test.

In each round of the marathon, you must tattoo a different creature of land, sea, or

sky.

And today, for the first round, you must tattoo a creature of the sea, an octopus.

What?

Six hours?

A lot of circles, a lot of lines.

A lot of elements go into tattooing an octopus.

All the tentacles, suction cups.

Showing accuracy is going to be huge on this.

You can't leave anything out.

But that is not all.

Of course not.

For this round, you must rely on the strength of your team.

We got that.

As a team, you will create one tattoo.

What?

One artist must line.

Oh.

One artist must shave.

and one artist must tattoo the color.

Damn, guys.

Assembly line tattoos.

A lot of shops in wartime era, this was common practice.

You walk into a shop, you sit down in the first chair, outline.

You move to the second chair, the next guy, shades, move to the third chair, color.

Lines of 100 people waiting to just sit in these chairs and go through and get tattoos.

This is about being efficient, about being accurate, about getting the job done in one shot.

The team that wins this challenge is safe from elimination.

Let's meet your canvases.

Josh, you won best tattoo of the day in the last elimination tattoo.

So you now have the power to assign the human canvases.

Awesome.

Your team is relying on you, so choose wisely.

Sweet.

Go ahead.

I've been attacked every single skull pick since the beginning of this thing.

It's going to be really fun to throw jabs at everybody else.

We're all getting octopuses, so where are you thinking about getting it?

I would like to get a color illustrative octopus on my chest.

OK.

We're kind of looking for somebody that wants to have some fun and just let us kind of do

our thing and give you a badass tattoo.

I would like to incorporate underwater scenes.

All I'm getting is there's an octopus.

I'm getting no background.

I want it on the inside of my right arm.

Dead set?

Yeah.

Skin's going to be squishy.

On my left thigh.

Open to just letting us have some fun?

Oh, yeah.

Killer.

Thank you.

There you are.

There you are, my man.

Canvases, one by one, please read the team's name on the bottom of your skull.

Team DJ.

Yeah, buddy.

We're going to come in.

Team Steve.

Team Anthony.

All right, guys, you have six hours to tattoo an octopus

as a team.

And your time starts now.

Let's do this thing, guys.

Get it, guys.

You ready to rock and roll?

Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

First thing, take your pants off.

That's my opening line, usually.

Winning safety from elimination is the biggest advantage you can get in this competition.

I'm thinking kind of just like a swoop right there.

All right.

These teams need to really have a good plan going in these tattoos.

You have to put the right players in the right spots.

Roller, you're doing the outline?

Yeah.

And you're doing the shading.

Yes.

And you're doing the color, right?

Sounds good.

No matter what your job, you have to perform it perfectly.

My recommendation is another location, possibly.

You're making this real hard for me, man.

You're making it hard for us, too.

We can do, like, out here.

Awesome.

It was in a jar.

Who the going to think of that?

You know what I mean?

That's what we keep doing.

We keep thinking outside the box.

If you do the shading clean and smooth, he does the lines clean and smooth, I can get wild.

For this, it's accuracy.

So, I mean, do we have to make sure that there's eight showing and, like?

That's the gamble we take.

But I mean, like, we're adding things on top of .

They could probably beat us with a straight up tattoo.

I mean, do you want to win?

Yeah.

We want the integrity of our art as well.

Do y'all want to make a solid, bulletproof, no questions asked tattoo that nobody can debate

whether it's good or not?

Or do you want to say, hey, we're artists, and we're doing some weird ?

OK, so let's start this drawing over.

No, I think the drawing's all right.

OK, guys, you have five more hours remaining.

I just hate that you were 110% for an hour, and now you're basically telling us we can't do

this.

Because you just had a judge come in and tell you different.

It's just going to be so boring.

It doesn't work.

It doesn't matter if it's boring.

I know.

I know.

I know.

Excitement is not the challenge.

Is it too late at this point to redraw a whole octopus and make it beat everyone else's?

Or should we stick with what we originally had?

Let's do the job.

Print it out.

Give me a stencil.

We're kind of right now, because if we start over, we're not going to finish a tattoo.

So we might as well do something we're going to finish.

Juan, just promise me that you're not going to do gray wash.

Trust me a little bit more, because I know I'm going to do a good job.

I promise you.

What I'm seeing right now is not black.

That's why I'm asking.

That's why I'm going to put the black.

Don't give me the question.

I'm just shading it.

OK.

I'm going to ask questions all the time.

And I'm only basing it what I see.

I have a lot of strong personalities on my team.

Today, I'm being very hands on.

I'm going to put them in a position to where they are going to be bulletproof.

God damn it.

I would be halfway done with this outline.

You're crazy.

I'm just starting the tattoo, and they're trying to rush me already?

Accurate day is the worst day to rush a tattoo.

You've got to move faster.

That glare in the eye, light it like a wash.

Jeremy.

Jeremy.

Don't bother him with that right now.

He's got to get rocking.

This tattoo is a marathon.

It's just like running a race.

If the first guy's lagging behind, the other two have to run even faster to make up the time

difference.

Do we need a line on this backside, or?

Nope, you're out.

Unplug and get out of the way.

It's like being in the car with your grandmother, and she's doing 35.

You're like, speed it the up, please.

Three hours to go, people.

That's all the shading I'm doing?

Yeah, because I can do a lot with deep colors.

OK.

As usual, Josh has sort of kind of taken over.

There's not a lot of shading.

It sucks that I can't show off as much as I wanted to.

Get in there, girl.

People think that I'm the weakest link because I've been in the bottom, and let them think

that.

I've been fighting in this tattoo industry since I was in high school.

I'm constantly being undermined, asking where my mentor is at tattoo conventions.

If I cared what anybody said about me, I wouldn't be tattooing.

Stop scratching them in there and bury the things, bro.

There you go.

It's hard to put color in solid on the chest, especially in a tattoo that could be easily

traumatized.

So I just got to be careful, do what I know best, and just pack in that color solid.

Just do it.

Four, three, two, one.

That's it.

Machines are down.

Time is up.

No more ink.

Thank you, guys.

It's just a cool tattoo, too.

Yeah, you got a dope piece.

Mm-hmm.

And the other two are just like octopus hanging.

That is fantastic.

Solid, baby.

I think that's what they're always looking for.

That's what they're looking for.

It's solid, man.

Yeah.

There was not three great tattoos down there.

We put a piece out that is going to be seen that I'm proud as of.

We didn't listen to the challenge.

He tells this all the time that we don't want to hear, but we do it anyway.

Cool.

So be a sheep.

I'm not a sheep.

Flat out, point blank.

There's no sheep over here.

You let them do like almost nothing to the tattoo, and you did the whole entire thing.

No.

Every single time, you just bully everyone into a point where you can't dig yourself out of

it.

I feel like every time you win a challenge, like, by this much, your dick and your head get

this dick.

Look how afraid and sad you are in trying to bring me down.

No one's afraid.

My line work was better than that line work.

Like, you're good at anything besides lines.

Oh, my god.

That's all you have, bro.

And when that comes to life, you're going to your pants.

Today, you had to work as a team to tattoo an octopus.

Let's see how you did.

Team Steve, you're up first.

Who did what here?

I did the line work.

I did the shading.

Jeremy did color.

The way this thing is colored is like a breath of fresh air, man.

Saturated color and then smoothly fade to that open skin.

It has a really soft, really finished look.

I do miss a little bit of the shading in the tentacle section.

You guys look a little bit unfinished in that department.

And the center of this guy, right under the eye, took a pretty heavy beating.

When you were outlining, did you get him in the outline, or did he get got in the shading?

I definitely didn't see any dugouts at all when I did the line work.

With these technical hiccups, it makes this choice pretty tough.

Next up is Team Anthony.

Who did what?

I did the line work.

I did the shadows.

He did the color.

At the top, we see some prime examples of outline wobbles.

And the color in the top of the tattoo, it's not strong enough and not soft enough.

It's simple, but it is exactly what it's supposed to be as far as accuracy goes.

You have all eight tentacles represented.

It has a very strong look from across the room.

All right, next team up is Team DJ.

Who did what?

Frank Lyon, Deanna did the shading, and I came back in with the color work.

As a standalone tattoo, it's interesting, it's compelling, it's artistic, it's creative.

But you're competing against two teams that showed the whole animal on an accuracy challenge.

We didn't take accuracy into that, like how accurate.

OK, the size of the head versus the tentacles, none of this could fit in the jar.

Come on.

Dude, it doesn't fit in that jar.

You can cram an octopus in a jar.

You could if you chop it up and puree it.

Do you want to actually win?

You're trying really hard to be creative instead of trying really hard to just hit a challenge.

None of them are accurate to an octopus.

So the one that fits the challenge the best is going to win.

I get it.

I know.

Obviously, you don't.

It was an octopus portrait day.

If it was jar day, I'm with you, bro.

You win.

People jar day.

I know they're supposed to have eight legs, but if all the eight legs are wrong, then you

can't do that.

Anthony's, they thin out, they look like banners.

The head.

Well, let's be honest.

The fight is between Team Anthony and Team Steve.

That thing's rad, bro.

All right, it is time to pick a winner.

Which team did the best tattoo of the day?

Team Steve's out.

Out of the running.

Overwork in the center.

I feel like Team Anthony has more accuracy in terms of anatomy.

10 feet away, Team Anthony definitely did an octopus.

I agree with that statement.

Team Anthony.

Team Anthony.

The best tattoo of the day goes to Team Anthony.

Congratulations.

You are safe from elimination.

Team DJ and Team Steve, tomorrow you will have one more chance to secure safety for

your team.

You can all head back to the lot.

I feel like we had a lot of issues yesterday.

Today cannot be like that.

Play it safe.

We're not losing the today.

The other thing, you two spend the time you need to make yours flawless.

I can make it happen in the end.

Let me coach.

Day hasn't even started, and you're still trying to take over.

We already know we can out tattoo every other team.

If we can just work as a team and let everyone have a voice.

Welcome, guys.

Team Anthony, you won best tattoo of the day in the first round and are safe from elimination.

Your team will not tattoo.

Team Steve and Team DJ, the battle has just begun.

That's for sure.

Today, you must tattoo a mythological creature of the sky, a pegasus.

Damn.

Tell me it makes sense.

There's so many little things in a pegasus that have to be completely right.

Just capturing that look and the majesty of a big, solid stallion is hard enough.

But adding wings adds a whole different level of complication.

To save yourself from elimination, you must have a solid strategy and trust in your team.

Because today, you must tag team.

As a team, you will create one tattoo on the same canvas.

Of course.

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

Can't be great.

But that is not all.

Never is.

Coaches, your success is directly tied to the survival of your team.

So for the first time, you will be tag team tattooing side by side with your

team.

That's a game changer.

Anthony wants in.

Right now.

Tag me.

Are you kidding me?

DJ is the most talented Ink Master in this whole competition.

With him tattooing with us, there's no way we could lose.

Now, coaches, this is your time to pick where the weaknesses were from yesterday and assert

yourself to make sure there's not a weakness.

That's the strategic play.

This is your last chance to save your team from elimination.

Fail to defeat the competition, and an artist from your team will be going home.

Let's see if they're up.

Let's meet your campuses.

Anthony, your team won the first round, so you have the power to assign the human canvases.

Your decision can change the course of the competition, so choose wisely.

Skull picks are everything in this competition.

And if I have a chance to take out one of BJ's artists, why not?

Where are you getting your tattoo at?

On my right thigh.

Black and gray in realism style.

I can finish it the first.

Black and gray Pegasus.

Where do you want to get it at?

I'm going to get it on my ribs.

How dead set are you on your ribs?

Dead set.

Tattooing the ribs is really tricky.

It's a really sensitive area.

It's super painful for the canvas.

It's going to be a nightmare.

Whoever you give the ribs to, he's coming after.

Team Anthony has been consistently firing at us, and I'm just mentally getting ready for it.

Good luck, guys.

Thank you.

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

Team DJ.

Team Steve.

All right.

You have six hours to tattoo a pegasus as a team.

And your time starts now.

Hey.

How's it going?

Today, the coaches are in.

This is a first.

The bottom line is these coaches have the ability to save their teams.

No higher than about here.

So that gives us, you know, a good 8 to 10 inches.

If the coaches are smart, they'll play their best advantage and try to keep a teammate.

You wouldn't be opposed to your thigh or calf or anything, would you?

I have thigh tattoos on this one, and my calves are both done already.

Do you have big, like, plans for your back, by any chance?

Not really.

Because you might even be able to do, like, a shoulder blade kind of rolling in, and then

you could build off that and create a whole scene later.

My whole shoulder blade is free, too.

I mean, yeah, create something pretty ,, like, flying, like, something cool.

All right.

Yeah, dude.

Sweet.

I'm going to, like, shade it.

I'm going to, like, pump everything up.

You do your thing with your line drawing.

I can follow whatever you come up with.

I'm just going to worry about setting up.

OK.

We took a huge risk yesterday, and we ended up losing tattoo of the day.

It is my fault.

So today, I'm going to step back and let the rest of the team really work.

It looks like a baby horse.

Yeah, but I just like it turned a little bit.

That's a cool last piece.

I'm just keeping my mouth shut because nobody listens anyway.

Those pretty ass wings look cool, man.

DJ has a really creative team, so we can't come with a weak design or we're going to lose.

We're going with that.

That's it.

No, no, no, it's not there.

I don't see what you're saying.

These guys got to learn how to tattoo under pressure.

DJ, obviously you don't trust your team.

It looks like a chrome hood ornament.

The back of this horse for me is very questionable.

It looks like it's pieced together.

Hell yeah.

Cool.

After yesterday's challenge, we're keeping it simple.

We picked a statue reference, and we're doing it exactly like that statue.

Oh, look at that.

That's mostly clean running.

I know how to run .

I kept telling you those needles.

You know how to run your mouth.

All right, you have five hours remaining.

Five hours to go.

Switch.

Sweet.

Silent and bulletproof, and that looks dead on.

If you're getting comfortable, you let me know, all right?

I'm making sure I get two turns in this tattoo.

I'm going to make sure I can come back at the end and notice any issues with it and clean

them up.

We're going to win this one for sure.

You have four hours to go, guys.

Switch artists.

Perfect.

There you go.

It's grueling right now in this competition.

You've been away from your family for weeks.

Give me the outer line.

Draw that line in before you tattoo it.

When I was going through my divorce, five months, I didn't get to see my kids.

A year and a half, I had to go through court to be able to get so custody of my children.

They're my blessing, my life, my everything.

To make my time away from my family worth it, I need to win.

You have three hours to go, guys.

Switch artists.

Damn.

If you're smart, you're going to let the coach go first and last.

Exactly.

No, no, no, it's not there.

Then you can fix it when you get in there, because I don't see what you're saying.

I'm leaving to beef.

Yeah.

I ain't never underestimated Steve.

He has a quality of it.

This is your final hour.

Switch it up.

Why aren't you finishing?

Because I tattooed once, so we didn't decide as a team.

These guys got to learn how to tattoo under pressure.

I am purposely only taking one turn on this tattoo.

DJ's got a big ego.

He's going to tattoo twice, man.

Whatever.

Obviously, you don't trust your team.

Four, three, two, one.

That's it.

Machines down.

Time is up.

No more ink.

Dude, that looks like a cool horse.

What do you guys think?

I think it's stunning.

Cool.

Listen, what do you think, bro?

It's pretty small.

I'm feeling bummed out on this tattoo.

The wings are weird.

The Pegasus is too dark.

Can it look clean?

You can read it from across the room.

Yeah, it's a little dark.

I think it looks good, dude.

The overall design is weak.

We're in trouble.

Today, you had to tag team tattoo side by side with your coaches.

The team with the best tattoo of the day will be safe from elimination, along with Team Anthony.

Let's see how you did.

Team Steve, you're up.

The back of this horse for me is

Very questionable.

The shape of that hind leg doesn't look like it has the strength that's going to hold this

thing up.

I just went off the anatomy of a real horse.

The connection of the wings to the horse don't appear to be the same on each side.

The wing on the right side of the tattoo looks like it's a lot lower and coming down a different

part of the horse than where the wing is connected on the other side of the tattoo.

It looks like it's pieced together.

Team DJ, you're up.

Overall, it has that smooth, buttery feeling.

It looks consistent.

It looks like one artist did it.

The only part of this tattoo that I wish was a little bit stronger are the wings.

I feel like the wings are a little bit small for this big, heavy gentleman.

It looks like a chrome hood ornament.

It definitely has that figurine look.

You could have added a lot of motion to this tattoo and outreached the rear legs.

If nothing else, just make that tail look like it's flowing in the wind.

But showing some smooth, soft, lightly shaded areas, that's one of the things that your competitors

kind of missed out on today.

All right, judges, it is time to pick a winner.

Which team did the best tattoo of the day?

We go shading for shading, wing for wing.

Team DJ outshines them.

Vote for Team DJ.

Team DJ.

The judges have decided the best tattoo of the day goes to Team DJ.

Thank you.

Thank you, guys.

That means Team DJ, you are also safe from elimination.

Thank god.

Team Steve.

Every artist on your team is now up for elimination.

Tomorrow, you must face off tattooing against your teammates.

Based on your work, one of you will be packing your machines.

As a team, you've tattooed creatures of the sea and the sky.

Now, to save yourself, you must each tattoo one of the ultimate land predators, a

full-bodied jaguar.

As one of the most ferocious animals on Earth, these powerful creatures are exceptionally

difficult to translate to skin.

Steve, since this is your team, you have the power to assign the style for the face-off tattoo.

Oh, Jesus Christ.

What style must your team tattoo?

Six hours of color would be hard to get done with all those spots.

Illustrated black and gray.

All right.

You will have six hours to complete.

your full-bodied jaguar tattoo.

Your canvases have been randomly assigned and are completely open.

I'm out swinging.

Go for it.

Do something strong.

Let it be legible.

One person's going out, but go out on something kick-ass.

I'm ready to go.

In a competition this close, you must be spot on, or you'll be eliminated.

Good luck.

We need to come with a stronger design, dude.

Oh, let's piss the whole .

day because of how simple it was and how small it was.

I didn't hear from you, bro.

Because a lot of my ideas get shot down and I get made fun of for them.

We don't have time to keep going back and forth all these ideas.

As soon as the time starts, we don't waste time.

We just start drawing.

If I let you do every idea that you wanted to do, you wouldn't even have been here right now.

The team concept is fantastic.

But at the end of the day, if you can't beat these two, you can't be here.

You're going to have to prove yourself.

If you can't, obviously, you're not going to be a Knick Master.

Their team is going to fall apart 100% because Jeremy is

Well, let's talk about that line in the sand, though.

What style does Rowley do?

The best.

Fucking great.

What style does fame do the best?

Fucking great.

What does Jeremy do the best?

Color.

What did Steve make them all do?

Fucking great.

He was like, these two are the guys that I want.

What are we going to see tomorrow?

Chaos.

The best part about tomorrow is going to be the laughter.

I'm going to make some popcorn and get a soda and get back and enjoy this show.

How you doing?

I'm Jimmy Camus.

Rosie, nice to meet you, man.

Pleasure to meet you.

Pleasure to meet you.

Who knows how this is going to play out?

What if you tip it a little bit more?

Know it the other way.

Now my teammates turned into my competitors.

And it's tough to even view them like that.

You know, I've been working with them this whole competition.

And now I've got to turn around and try to take them out.

Listen, when you put this on, this thing needs to be bulletproof.

Normally, I will consult my team and get advice.

But today, I'm by myself.

That's a good piece, bro.

I can't go home with this tattoo.

I specialize in black and gray, so I'm pretty sure it's not going to be me.

Damn, it's crazy you guys are doing the same work.

What's the chance of that, bro?

Apples to apples today.

That's crazy he's doing the same work.

Is it?

Same?

Same body.

This is super stressful.

If my team were to listen to me, we wouldn't be in this predicament.

And now we have to tattoo against each other?

This is a nightmare.

Team Steve, this is your last chance to save yourself from elimination.

You have six hours to tattoo a jaguar, and your time starts now.

Do this, boys.

Do this.

For this face-off, we're still testing accuracy, and each artist has to tattoo a full-body

jaguar.

They roll.

That might be facing the wrong way.

It's a rule of thumb, everything.

Faces in on the body.

Something like that, right?

I'm not expecting to see just straight portraits of jaguars.

This is supposed to be an illustrative challenge.

This is supposed to be their chance to show off their skills as an artist.

It's facing backwards.

Let me see this real quick.

Got a complete image.

These should be the best tattoos that these three guys have done this entire competition.

Team Steve's on the line.

One person's going home.

Let's do this.

This is like a sparring match.

Before the heavyweight fight, you got to spar.

You got to get your tattoo under pressure.

You have to do that.

It's definitely not a good feeling knowing that three of my artists are in the bottom, and

one of them is definitely going home.

But at the end of the day, you have to beat everybody in the room to win, even your own teammates.

I feel really good about this tattoo.

I'm the strongest on my team, and I know I'm gonna crush this thing.

Little by little, I got good at drawing.

There was this dude in my neighborhood that did like hood tats at his house, you know?

Started doing that, and then just a whole bunch of my boys were like, you know, hey, if you

get some , I'll let you tattoo me, you know?

And I was like, word.

My whole time I've been tattooing, I've only had one person that has pushed me, and that's

my wife.

She made so many sacrifices so that I can be a tattooer and so that I can follow my dreams.

I'm going to fight to the end, and I'm going to win this so that she knows that she didn't

do all that for nothing.

So now Jeremy, because we had the same reference, are going head to head.

I want you to just brush a little bit behind the snout.

Give me more separation.

OK.

Here, and here.

Steve picked black and gray illustration.

Black and gray is my specialty.

Tattoo the tattoo, no matter what, I'm going to beat Jeremy.

Three more hours.

Shade those in a little bit.

This is black.

Yep, and think about this, too.

Off that eye, there's going to be a lid and a little shadow.

So just show that little bit.

Just so you're aware, everyone not on your team is on your side.

Thank you.

Today, we're kind of treating Jeremy like a teammate because him still being with Steve helps

us.

They're going to continue fighting every day, and there's no way as a group they're ever going

to get their footing.

Trying to get them to walk out on Steve.

It's awesome.

Just planting seeds.

This competition's just as much about the mental warfare as it is tattooing, and I'm here

to break people down in every way I can.

Fame has a line all the way around the whole head.

The whole thing doesn't run into the neck like yours does.

If he outlines it, it's going to look like a fake head floating on a body.

I'm more known for color.

Black and gray is something I do sometimes.

I'm nervous right now because the stakes are higher than they've ever been.

Now I'm going against my team.

They can send me home, or I can send one of them home.

Did you choose this to take me out, Steve?

What are you talking about?

You're killing it.

Did you choose this style to take me out?

Black and gray, illustrative.

I did this style so you could actually finish a tattoo for once in your life.

OK.

You're welcome.

Thank you.

The was that?

It's just what I heard.

This is your final hour.

One hour left.

Guys, I don't like both paws in the front.

They're weird.

It's between Fame and Jeremy right now.

Straight up.

If you ask me which one I would wear, I would wear the Airways.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, absolutely.

Roli shows a very weird pose for his Jaguar.

And those paws, man, they look like a plush toy.

And it's going to be chaos.

Three, two, one.

That's it.

Machines down.

Time is up.

No more ink.

All right, dude.

We're all done.

Great job.

You killed it.

The white makes the whiskers pop.

Looks really good.

Thank you, man.

Definitely.

Everybody kicked ass.

Oh, yeah.

Everybody, and they're all a little different.

Yeah.

Even if I say you did the same pose, yours would have been different anyway.

Yeah, it's all different styles, isn't it?

Yeah, man.

I was nervous that fame was going to let his head get to him.

Dude, I think he did a great job.

He did a nice piece.

Yeah, it's a real nice tattoo.

This is going to be bad.

Joshua is telling me to leave the team.

Don't listen to Steve anymore.

Leave the team?

Yeah.

From a guy who gets an argument with his coach daily.

I just don't know why all of a sudden he's trying to be my buddy.

He's trying to think that you're buddies, and the next thing you know,

If you look on the word pathetic, Josh won't be there.

The next term will be very pathetic, then he'll be there.

Holy.

Josh is trying to turn Jeremy against Steve to try to create that ultimate chaos.

Yeah.

This is awesome.

Why?

I just don't like Steve.

If I can knock them out from underneath him to where he's sitting around here twiddling his

thumbs, that's hilarious to me.

And I would laugh every day looking at him, look around sad.

But at this point, if you're the one giving Jeremy this good information, it's going to help

him more than if we just let Steve have him.

I'm just trying to get him to break away from Steve.

And then I'm going to leave him on his own.

OK, so that's a strategy on its own.

There's a lot of angles, man.

I'm trying to figure out these angles.

Mental warfare.

You can't figure all of them out because I got games against you too.

That is a strange looking shape.

And you drew it.

It doesn't look right.

Having the tools to know how to draw things is part of being Ink Master.

Today, Team Steve had to face off against each other.

Team Anthony and Team DJ are safe from elimination.

Team Steve, based on your work, one of you will be packing your machines.

Let's see how you did.

Let's start with Rolly.

I love the face of this thing.

This tattoo is super smooth.

I love the shading.

I do like the details that you get.

The spots do let me know what this beast is.

I'm happy with the tattoo.

I know it's a super clean tattoo.

I know exactly what it's going to heal like.

I know it's going to be beautiful.

The place that you fall really short for me is going to be in these paws.

This huge bubble on that paw closest to the face.

That is a strange looking shape, my man.

A paw doesn't look like that.

Big thing about tattoos like this is a lot of times the reference looks great in the photo.

But once you turn a photo into a flat 2D image on skin, you lose a lot.

And these paws in the front, I can see how you trace the reference and try to replicate it.

But it does not have the same depth, the same dimension, the same feel.

It doesn't look right.

All right, next up is fame.

I love the face on this thing.

I think you really captured a lot of the ferocity of this cat.

I just wish that there was some more contrast to bring that head forward.

You need to do a lot to make that head jump out and be visible.

If I cover the face and just look at the humpback and the rear legs, it doesn't look like

a strong, fierce animal.

Just this little bubble body, not showing any musculature, not really showing any fur, just

showing spots.

Having the tools to know how to draw things in a way that become flattering and powerful is

part of being Ape Master.

Next up is Jeremy.

You used the same reference as fame, but this face does stand apart from the body.

Where you lose it for me on accuracy are the claws.

This front paw, I don't know.

Is that another toe?

Pull up the reference and look.

I don't know.

No, man.

It's not about the reference.

You should know if you put it in there, man.

You drew it.

This is not me busting balls.

This thing doesn't have enough fingers and toes.

Paws are off.

Can't say nothing about that.

But illustration is there.

I like it.

You like it.

I like the face.

I think Jeremy's face is killer.

I think his head fits on that body.

The neck is connected to it.

It has depth.

I love the illustrative look.

I think you did hit that mark.

And the other thing that you really hit on this is the body turn.

The front shoulders are coming forward, and the butt of this thing looks farther back than

his hip.

It's a tattoo, and it's not a portrait.

It's not realism day.

Thank you.

Steve, how are you feeling right now?

Obviously not good.

I'm going to lose somebody.

This is not what I wanted at all.

These are my boys.

But the one that's worst applied to me would be Jeremy's.

The black doesn't go up all the way.

It's spotty here or there.

Jeremy has the illustrative whiskers, and neither do the other two.

Which is great, but you've got to have black up to them.

Black's got to be black.

Black whiskers aren't even realistic.

Listen, I don't want to even do this, because one of my guys goes home regardless.

But if I go with application, I think it's worst applied.

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

Roli's definitely got smooth to black and gray.

Roli's safe to me, so if we all agree on that.

Roli, you're safe.

So this is between Jeremy and Fame.

If I look at the anatomy of the cat and the turn of the body and the dynamics of the shapes,

100% like Jeremy's better.

There is more accuracy in Fame's claws, but I like that there's depth in Jeremy's that I'm

missing out of Fame's.

I got to vote for Fame.

Voting for Fame.

Fame.

The judges have decided, fame.

You do not have what it takes to be Ink Master.

In this competition, the fact that you were so up and down, that shows somebody who's really

fighting.

A lot of people would just play it safe.

You had two best tattoos of the day.

You crushed it here.

This is not an easy place to be.

I'm sorry to see you go.

Thanks a lot.

You know, I really appreciate the opportunity, man.

This is like once in a lifetime.

Please pack your machines and close shop.

Here they go.

All right?

Thanks a lot, you guys.

Take care, guys.

I'm disappointed because I let myself down the most.

But it's a blessing that made it this far to do this competition and make it to the top 10.

That's accomplishment right there.

On the next episode of Ink Master.

I just got confused when my own coach tried to purposely send me home.

Every time we've got a skull pick, we take that person out that we're going for.

You guys can take your advantages and shove them right up your .

It will take the application skills of a master to flawlessly apply every microscopic detail.

That's it.

You're a brilliant artist.

Don't forget what you're here for.

You, me, and Roly are taking this thing all the way home.

There is no explanation.

Doesn't look complete.

Messy.

You missed today big time.

None of us three want to send you home.