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

The judges made the wrong pick.

I'm one against this entire house, it feels like.

We're going to gun at you.

I'm going to do everything I can to on your world.

That's just the way the game goes.

In the Flash Challenge, Team Steve.

fought for redemption.

I just want to get my team's momentum going, get their morale back up.

You guys did great, man.

The judges have decided the winner of today's Flash Challenge is Team Steve.

Finally, gun down who you want.

It's bloodbath, this thing.

In the elimination tattoo, Team Steve failed to execute their plan of attack.

Steve, it's like you're shooting that gun drunk.

You can't hit any of your targets.

You can't talk like that when you can't sleep well.

Put a bunch of blood.

It keeps popping it out.

This does not look like stone.

I am panicked in my head.

There's not one that I don't have problems with.

What do you say no best tattoo of the day?

That's my vote.

I'll second that.

The judges have decided there is no best tattoo of the day.

In the elimination, Daniel, Faye, and Mike were the bottom three artists.

Daniel.

This tattoo is just scribbly and messy.

It's tattooed insanely.

Fame.

It's light.

It's sketchy.

It's not set in deep.

It looks like a paperweight.

Mike.

This floating black nose, no muzzle, no whiskers.

I was trying to put dimension on dimension.

I care that a wolf looks like a wolf.

The judges have decided, Mike, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master.

10 artists remain, but only one will earn a $100,000 prize.

And the title.

of Ink Master.

You and

I, we've actually beaten the best tattoo artists in the world in different competitions.

And here, we haven't won.

Everyone came to this competition, and this is going to make their career better.

Yeah.

Me and you came to this competition, and it can ruin us.

Puerto Rico has their eyes on me.

It's kind of nerve-wracking for me, because I really want to represent the island well.

And not winning every challenge is...

It gets to me.

So I think for my next tattoo, I'm just going to do my thing.

The thing I've been doing for 15 years, and it has worked in every competition.

I would love it if me and you take Tattoo of the Day back and back for the rest of this goddamn

thing.

Super excited to meet you in the finale.

It'll be a bloodbath.

Oh, nice.

Welcome, guys.

Each week, you've had to rely on your team to help you gain advantages.

But for this Flash Challenge, you are on your own.

Every decision is completely on your shoulders.

This week, we are testing detail.

Details are all the subtle nuances that make up an image.

It's all those details that really pull it all together and really showcase what the image

is.

To make it through this competition, you must use the tools that empower you to compete at

your highest level week after week.

And nobody does that better than Lara Croft.

That's dope.

That's right.

I'm talking about the new feature film Tomb Raider, starring Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft,

the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer.

She must push herself beyond her limits as she journeys into the unknown.

And whether it's her iconic ice pick or her bow and arrow, she always has the right tool for

whatever obstacle she encounters.

These guys in the competition don't really understand having such a huge female role model

to look up to.

Lara Croft is the ultimate symbol of woman empowerment.

Today, your canvases are all strong women who welcome any adventure and push themselves to

overcome obstacles.

For this flash challenge, you must tattoo a permanent representation of the tools that empower

them.

Sick.

To do these women justice, you must make sure that every tiny element is flawless.

If your details aren't on point, your tattoo will be a muddy, unreadable mess.

The object here is to make every detail HD for us.

Go the extra mile to give them something that really works.

Absolutely.

Win this challenge, and you will have the power to assign all the human canvases in the elimination

tattoo.

Let's meet your canvases.

Canvases, please tell us what tattoos you're hoping to get today.

I'm a police officer, and I would like a police hat, badge, and an American flag.

I'm a retired Air Force Master Sergeant, and I want combat boots with dog tags.

Oh, dope.

I'm an EMT firefighter and Air Force veteran, and I would like a tattoo of a set of rescue

irons with a stethoscope wrapped around it.

I'm a cancer survivor and a scholar, and today I would like to get a bow and arrow for my

transition to a better future.

I'm a public defender, and after losing my father a few years ago, I went through a very dark

time.

So I'd like to get a Lady Justice rising from the ashes.

OK, one by one, please choose a skull.

The name on the bottom of your skull will determine your artist.

Jason?

Frank.

Jeremy.

Roli.

Got you.

Daniel.

Stethoscope, scathoscope, I don't even know how to say it, let alone tattoo it.

I need Laura Croft help with this saying stethoscope.

Fame.

Juan.

Deanna.

Amanda.

Josh.

Right here.

OK, artists, you have six hours, and your time starts now.

Hi.

Good to meet you.

Let's start doing a little discussion real fast.

OK.

In testing detail, these artists really need to pay attention to these items that the canvases

want and make it stand out and make it strong, make these women proud.

I want my master intel badge on one of the dog tags.

OK.

And then my day to service on the other.

I wanted a watercolor.

What?

This is like every day at a tattoo shop.

Somebody comes in, they want a specific item.

It's your job to do it.

These guys should all kill these tattoos.

You said that you have been battling cancer.

Yeah, well, it's my first year, technically, off of remission.

Really?

I'm actually ending it like that chapter of, like, thinking about the past.

Yeah.

It's a good thing.

Very emotional.

That's OK.

Oh, honey, if I start crying, I might cry, too.

When you actually get the chance to impact someone's life and how they feel about themselves,

it is the whole industry.

Apprentice, there was not a whole lot I cared for.

the fact that I was even there.

Huge blow to your ego when you're told all you are is a cute face and a tight ass.

I'm gonna make it innocent, that cute face.

You wanted an old world map.

Is that what you wanted?

Any kind of a map at all.

I'm a geospatial scientist.

This is my time to finally shine.

Instead of just doing a skull with the map inside of it, we're doing a skull globe.

I'm going to show detail by making sure I get every tiny little state and country in this

map on this skull.

Being in this industry, it makes you have to learn to speak up and stand up for yourself.

I'm excited to show off.

Three more hours.

I know Josh likes to do big things.

And impressive.

My canvas wanted Lady Justice rising out of the ashes.

We changed the design to be more of a phoenix to represent coming out of a really dark place

to where she's at now.

Ready?

This is going to suck.

She overcame so many hardships, and that's exactly what I'm doing.

I'm being held down by every other contestant in here, and I'm going to fight past every one

of them to the end.

I'm really used to listening to my own gut and my own ideas.

And when I get different ideas, they just get me confused.

At this point, bro, I'm just trying to do my thing.

Yeah.

All right.

Maybe, like, the little lines on the tape or gauze or.

It's a little too late.

You know what I mean?

So I can't go in there and grab the machine.

He knows better.

You're going to give me a little bit of blacker shading?

Definitely shade off the bevel.

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

Dark.

Push everything else forward.

I feel even more pressure today because of how important this tattoo is to my canvas.

She served a lot of time in the military.

So you're in the Air Force, how long?

21 and a half.

21 and a half.

Two boots means twice the amount of detail.

All the detail that goes into one boot, I got to turn around and do the same thing to the

other one.

I'm ready to show people what kind of threat I am, and I'm going to fight till the end, and

I'm going to win this.

Dude, time is up for any...

Rock it out.

I love it.

Do you like it?

Thank you.

Like, I'm done with cancer, so it's like, this is dope, for real.

I'm glad I got to do it for you.

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

Let's start with Jason.

So what do you do?

I'm a history professor, and so it really beautifully integrates all of the work that I'm

doing, the research that I'm doing.

Having that open book with the flowing pages gives me a sense of a cool breeze.

And then you have really great details in these little areas.

That looks great.

I love the fact that you put the little tooth in the center of the flower, but I really wish

that you would have defined where the wraps are going, because it kind of blends together

and looks like a mummy a little bit.

Of course it looks like a mummy.

It's a body with wrappings.

What's the difference?

Amanda, I particularly like what you did with the bow, all the tiny little lines and the handle,

and then the featherwork of the arrow.

Very delicate, and it all remains very feminine.

You did a great job.

Daniel.

The details in this are great.

You do a really clean, crisp tattoo.

But if you know how an axe handle works, the strength of the stick is the grain running long

ways.

If the grain's running through this way, it'll snap.

I mean, that is style.

Style, daddy.

Jeremy.

A lot of really great detail in the small buildings.

The tiny little nautical stars in there is very clear and very legible.

Buddy, I think this is the best tattoo I've seen you do here.

Your crispest, tightest, sharpest, cleanest piece that you've produced.

Thank you.

Rolly.

This tattoo shows a great attention to detail.

The detail on the laces, the consistency of the thickness of the laces all the way through

each turn and bend was a detailed challenge.

You hit it really strong.

The shining moment of this tattoo is in the camera.

So many small little circles in there and ovals, but they might be the worst leaves I've ever

seen.

If the flower is a traditional flower, then the leaf has to be traditional with the flowers.

Josh.

I like the fact that the detail really lies in the face, really lies in the wings, the actual

scale patterns.

are all right on the money.

You're swinging for the fences.

Man, I sweat right to that last second.

That's a huge tattoo.

Yeah, that was stupid.

Josh's tattoo is huge.

It's almost as big as his ego.

Frank.

That top flower is busted.

It's just three weird lines with red in between them.

As far as hitting the detail and the impact wrench, you killed it, and then you busted it

up with a pretty weak traditional flower.

Deanna.

The details in the skull and the map are really meticulously done.

I love the little bit of texture you got just in the stippling effect to separate the continents

from the rest of the skull.

For me, this is your shining moment.

I am so glad that we didn't have to work as a team today because I rocked it on my own as

a strong lady.

Thank you.

I am the Laura Croft of this entire competition.

On my left ribs.

And my right armpit.

These are not easy.

What's wrong with that?

I was all wrong, bro.

I'm not going to tattoo because I hate the design this much.

Josh, you better start packing up your .

You're definitely going home.

Laura Croft is a courageous adventurer, always prepared with the right tools to handle anything

that comes her way.

Today, you had to give your canvases a permanent representation of the tools that helped them

succeed.

Rolly did a really nice, clean tattoo.

It shows a lot of tight, intricate detail.

Thank you.

Jeremy, you did a killer job.

The intricate details of the New York skyline really read well.

Thank you.

Deanna.

There's a lot of solid areas of black, but the detail still really shines clear.

The nicest tattoo you've done here.

Thank you.

The judges have decided.

The winner of today's flash challenge is Roly.

Oh, yeah, bro.

Looks like he's going to faint.

Thank you so much.

For real.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

You had to exercise a lot of detail repeatedly over and over and over.

That really stood strong without getting money.

Congratulations, Roly.

You will have the power to assign all the human canvases in the elimination tattoo.

Man, this is super big, and I'm going to try again.

I'm taking out Team DJ.

And you can all head back to the loft.

Let's go ahead and try it out.

Boy, bro.

You can slam, man.

Dang it.

I'm really getting tired of hearing Josh run his mouth.

And he's devious.

Right.

And he's just using it to basically play mental games with us.

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

I've got the most fire in my heart.

I want DJ's team to fully crumble.

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

When you guys do make skull picks, make sure that that hit.

is very thought out and deliberate.

Right.

If we don't, then it's wasted, and it obviously could backfire.

That's who I want to take out, and I know that's who my whole team wants to take out.

Yeah.

Welcome to the elimination tattoo.

In this competition, every detail is important.

Fail to stay focused, and you will lose your shot at earning $100,000, a feature in Inked

Magazine, and the title of Ink Master.

And coaches.

Don't forget, each artist from your team to make it to the finale earns you the power to call

a shot in the master face-off for $100,000.

And today, you must tattoo Technicolor hot air balloons.

What?

What is that, man?

Like every color on the side.

Gosh.

You're blowing hot air at my ass, right?

From intricate ropes to colorful and elaborate patterns, you must make sure every tiny detail

is on point.

There are so many details inside of a hot air balloon.

The basket, the rope, the curvature of the whole entire balloon.

And then adding technical into it, this thing is going to be insane to finish.

This is going to be painful.

This is straight up line work.

This is beautiful color.

Today's the day you can show fire, you can show wind, you can show weaving, you can show rope.

That's a lot of detail.

Go off.

Do what you can do at the same time.

Don't overdo what you can't do.

Coaches, after the elimination tattoo, you'll deliberate and choose one artist to put up for

elimination.

Let's meet your canvases.

Roly, you won the flash challenge.

You now have the power to assign the human canvases.

Remember, every advantage is key to your success, so do not waste it.

Bro, I got it.

Team Anthony and Team Steve both want Team DJ out.

So this is the moment of truth.

Rollie, step up to the plate.

What are you looking to get done?

I want to get a hot air balloon with a girl holding onto the rope.

Cool.

A hot air balloon with a compass basket.

Dude, that's murder.

There are so many concentric circles in a compass itself that the compass basket, it's going

to be a lot to pull off.

Technicolor hot air balloon, steampunk style on my back.

With the space background?

You want a steampunk hot air balloon, which doesn't make sense, in outer space in six hours?

That's not even an option.

What do you get when your idea is what?

Autumn colored hot air balloon with an acorn basket in my right armpit.

What?

Inside the armpit?

Inside the armpit.

The armpit is a mother .

Are you down to moving it at all?

Not at all.

If you give Deanna the underarm, it's yes.

Anyway, yes.

The armpits super bad to tattoo.

It hurts like hell.

And there's not only blood, sweat starts to come out.

So it's not pleasant for the artist or the canvas.

Why would you want to get that?

I want a hot air balloon made out of butterflies.

Beautiful.

Where do you want to put that?

On my left ribs.

The skinnier you are, the harder it is to tattoo the ribs.

There's no cushion for the pushing on this one.

Vivid Technicolor hot air balloon with a galaxy background.

These are not easy.

There's a lot of bad skulls, and I gotta make sure that our team is gonna be safe.

So if Team Anthony gets bad skulls, it.

Okay.

It's on.

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

Daniel.

Right here.

Fame.

Roli.

Gotcha.

Compass.

Josh.

Yep.

Of course he gave me the compass basket.

Thanks, Roli.

What did he want?

Oh, Jesus.

Deanna.

It's a technicolor challenge, and steampunk is made out of yellow brass.

Those two things don't even go together.

Frank?

How's it going, man?

He's got a little bad hair.

He better.

Crazy if you don't.

Oh, yeah.

Challenge accepted.

I've got no problem tattooing in hard areas.

I'm going to give him exactly what he wants, and I'm going to do it fantastically.

Jason?

Right here.

Look how white hair skin is.

Wow, it's amazing.

Yeah, thanks, Roli.

Amanda?

Hi.

Juan?

Hi.

Hello.

Jeremy?

Hello.

You'll have six hours to soar above the competition by tattooing

Technicolor hot air balloons.

Make sure your tattoo is airtight, or you'll be going home.

Good luck.

Hi.

Yeah, come on over.

No shortage of ways to show detail in a hot air balloon.

You have the basket, the flame, the sky in the background.

Today is all about detail, so we're going to nail this thing.

OK.

Also, this is technicolor challenge.

We want to see a wide spectrum of colors.

We're going to use blues and greens, maybe some purple, light.

It's going to be up to these artists to figure out where to put the detail in and how to make

a beautiful tattoo and not it up.

First thing,

would have to go smaller.

And it's just going to be less detailed, because it takes a lot longer to tattoo it on the

ribs.

So I want to switch it off the ribs.

I mean, I really want the ribs, just because my legs are water and my torso's air.

The more likely we can change the location, the bigger, cooler tattoos.

I'm not going to tap out or anything like that.

I have full back teeth, sternum.

I could be really screwed right now.

I mean, if this girl makes the slightest movement, my lines are going to look like , and that

will send me home.

It has to be Technicolor, right?

Yes, that's the only thing I want to talk to you about, because I know Steampunk isn't Technicolor.

So the background, I envision to be kind of like a space background, like universe.

Galaxy can be relatively colorful, right?

Maybe you can incorporate some fresh polka style, like hexagon pattern.

Where do you even come up with these ideas?

The air balloon is like a ball, right?

I was thinking to be more like a cube.

I don't know what to do at this point.

I am .

Hold your arm up for me.

Frank, if you pull it off, that's a cool piece.

I'm super impressed he didn't even try to move it.

That's balls, bro.

I'd have moved it.

I don't got balls, so.

I would have moved it, too.

Yeah, well, this one's basically all about lines.

So whoever's got some clean lines is going to do good in this challenge.

Your boy's afraid to pull lines, bro.

I don't think he's afraid.

My canvas wanted a hot air balloon with a compass for a basket.

And I swayed her into this really awesome design of this balloon carrying this mother whale

and its infant.

I can pull off a compass, but it's just not going to be that cool.

I'd rather see a whale tied to a balloon than a compass.

I don't think it hits the challenge as much.

There's other people in the room.

You don't have to worry about me all the time.

I'm never worried about you.

You haven't shut up about me in my piece since you guys sat down.

You haven't shut up at all.

A little stevesy.

You're the coolest.

OK, artists, you have six hours to tattoo a Technicolor hot air balloon.

And your time starts now.

Let's do this.

We're looking for a lot of detail.

That's the name of the game today.

Maybe just a little tilted?

If you do that, it would kind of swing.

Hot air balloons are vivid.

They are bright.

There's not a very soft-looking hot air balloon that flies around.

Are you just going to freehand them in?

Yeah, I'm going to draw them first.

Cool.

Without those things in place, these things are going to look like a hot mess.

All right, buddy, are you ready?

Always ready.

I'm terrified right now because my canvas has tissue paper skin, which means that every line

I do is almost a blowout.

You're doing amazing, and I really appreciate it.

This impacts everything because I have to go twice as slow.

Boy, oh, boy.

You need anything, brother?

I know.

I'm going to see if I can try to pull as much detail as I can in here.

Bro, I really loved your first design.

It's too simple, though.

No, it's not.

If you add triations in the basket and give me some rope lines, that takes dope.

I love the sun.

I love the moon.

This is the first time ever in my entire career that I cannot come up with a design that I

feel good about.

What's wrong with that one?

It's all wrong, bro.

It's not right at all.

So make the balloon bigger.

I had never tattooed someone that hated design.

I take pride in my work, you know?

So if I don't feel the design, I'm not going to tattoo it.

He's lost her.

I'm like, I think we're bringing it together.

Right now, I feel like quitting.

I hate the design this much.

Five hours remaining.

Five more hours.

There's more waiting on time.

I'm super happy that Steve's team is in trouble because I'm pissed at Rolly right now.

He gave me the rib tattoo.

He's in the tricky spot.

When you put a design on the ribs and then they lay down, it gets really big.

So you're having to do twice the amount of work.

I wanted to go detailed, but it's on the ribs.

So I think it's better to make sure we get a tattoo done and it's clean.

Three hours remaining.

Three more hours.

I am taking a huge risk today.

You didn't run for that armpit, huh?

Nope.

Not at all.

In tattooing an armpit, you run the risk of overworking the skin because the armpit swells

really fast.

The big bright color's going to be the yellow.

I mean, it's pretty bright.

Right now, I'm putting all my eggs in one acorn-shaped basket, and I'm hoping this takes off.

I was going to do a dark brown.

But just make sure over here is black.

OK.

Today I'm not playing it safe.

I think it's time for me to show everybody what I'm made of.

Are you putting color here?

Yep.

I just was going to save it for last because it'll be the lightest.

Perfect.

OK.

I know a lot of color theory.

I'm going completely off of my own head on this one and not using any kind of reference.

I'm just creating it as I go.

It's a big risk, but I think that I can pull this one off.

I felt like stuff was going better before people started coloring.

They're making bad choices.

Why did Amanda go with all teal?

Looks like a baby rattle.

I know.

I bet it's even color coming out of Daniel's hand or he's a .

He creates so much work for himself in lines.

Three circles, not 300.

We're over it.

We know you can do it.

Okay, fine.

Call it a day already.

I love the ambition, but you gotta be smart about it, dude.

With doing as much detail as I did in my tattoo, it needs to be big.

What's next?

Use your liner and just bop, bop, bop, bop, bop.

Oh, on the rub, yeah.

Yeah.

At this point, I bit up more than I can chew.

We've got to finish all these colors.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I'm going to use a smaller needle to get in there.

I'm feeling really good about my tattoo, but I am worried about the risks I took on it.

Finish the balloons.

Make those bulletproof, because that's our main focus.

These tiny micro balloons I'm doing took a lot more time than I thought.

So it really ate up the majority of my time.

So now I'm rushing at the end to get this frame dialed in.

Make sure that thing is bulletproof.

OK.

You know what I'm saying?

Time.

Time.

One minute.

People know I'm a black and gray artist, so they're just waiting for me to .

this up.

Like that red solid.

You know how all he is.

Get up to that line.

There you go.

There's no way I'm going to saturate it and compete with the best in the room.

I'm trying to breathe.

This is the home stretch.

Five.

Nerd breaking.

Four.

Jesus.

Three.

Two.

Cutting it real close.

One.

That's it.

Machines down.

Time is up.

No more ink.

Can I get like 10 more minutes?

Come on.

All right.

Let's hop up and take a look.

It's pretty awesome.

Stoked?

Yeah, I love it.

It's pretty clear that Rolly hit Team DJ super hard.

And we all pulled off great tattoos.

You can't shake us.

We're not going anywhere.

Hey, Josh, you better start packing up your .

You're definitely going home.

You were rushing harder than I was through that tattoo.

Your tattoo has whales.

When have you ever seen a balloon made out of 8,000 pearls?

If you'd spend more time tattooing, less time fixing your hair, you might not have been on

speed control to the end of that thing.

That's probably why you finished your tattoo so fast you don't even got any hair.

Team Steve sucks at skull picks.

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

It looks rough.

It looks painful.

That balloon is really jacked.

There's not a lot of solid areas anywhere.

We've done nothing but damage with our skull picks, and I feel like you've done nothing but

damage to yourselves.

I felt like I gave Josh a piece that he would struggle on.

for what I thought was going to be a load of line work.

He turned it into barely any line work.

What do you want me to do?

Then you gave Jason a rib tattoo.

It was the ribs, but I felt like you could shine.

Had it been on the calf, I'd have smashed it.

Had Josh had a rib tattoo to do, he would have had wiggly up lines the whole way through.

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

I gave Frank an armpit, and I gave Deanna a cluster .

Team Steve sucks at skull picks.

You guys have had two skull picks in a row.

And you know what we've gained from it?

Josh almost got tattooed the day twice, and we lost Mike.

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

You know what I mean?

You know what?

I'm not even listening to .

I'm going to target everybody.

So all that .

Whatever.

Today, you had to show flawless detail tattooing Technicolor hot air balloons.

Team Steve, you're up.

Rolling.

Overall, I like the tattoo.

There are areas where you showed nice detail, specifically in the basket weaving, in the ropes.

I love this banner that's going around.

But the pastel-y lightness that you put into this doesn't give this thing power.

See the way the green is shaded, how patchy and how unsmooth.

It looks like cupcake frosting for a balloon.

It doesn't have strength.

Fame.

I like that graphic image.

I like the sun and the moon and the stars.

The weakness in this tattoo is the color.

The purple and the blue were scratchy and holidayed everywhere you look in this tattoo.

This is color saturation 101, dude.

Because of time, I was trying to get the color in there, man.

In this competition, you're going from one tough outing to another.

And it's like you're not shaking off the last one.

You need to find a way to step into your future clean.

Jeremy.

I like your idea.

I like the design of the balloon in the middle.

going for that technicolor look.

But the top balloon is really jacked.

You went too small for the amount of detail you try to show.

I think it looks pretty detailed.

If you look at this frame, no two sides of this thing have the same line weight.

There's an overall messiness to the whole piece.

Team Anthony, you're up.

Amanda.

First question is, between the balloon and the basket, what's going on there?

I was under the impression that the flame was more up in the actual balloon, so I didn't design

it to where there was the middle part with the flame.

It just looks like it's not done.

You need a bolder outline on this.

Look at all the areas where yellow actually penetrates your black outline and covers it.

If you put a thicker, stronger line, it looks more deliberate.

Nobody has a heavy balloon that's going to cruise through the atmosphere and support the weight

of human lives that are inside.

Daniel.

The outline on this thing is great.

What I have issue with on this is all of the color.

There's not a lot of solid areas anywhere.

I only had an hour and a half to finish the color.

The outline just took twice as long as I ever thought it could.

The winning edge is a tattoo that you can finish.

Jason.

Your color looks punched.

You're the first one so far that has a waxy glow to your tattoo.

The placement is what kills this thing.

The balloon is so slender and straight, and the basket is directly underneath it, and it's

just turned on its side.

It just doesn't look like a hot air balloon.

It looks like a chalice of blood with butterflies flying out of it.

One.

Lots of really nice details in here, particularly in that basket.

I love the attention to detail in these ropes that are going throughout this piece.

The area of the globe is very nice, but a lot of these tones come out muted, punched in a

little bit more solid black, and it would have given this tattoo a little more contrast, and

those colors would have stood out.

Team DJ, you're up.

Josh.

It is a definite unique idea.

I like the whales hanging by the ropes.

I love the tension of detail in this netting that goes across with the shadow underneath.

All these little squares and triangles that you've created, the color is solid in each one

of those little areas.

I mean, looking at this compared to what I've looked at in the room, it's a relief.

Thank you, guys.

Frank.

I really like the design, man.

I like the way he played on what he wanted with the acorn and the autumn leaves.

It's a cool illustrative take.

And I have to commend you on your placement of this thing, making the balloon just slightly

higher than the actual crease of the armpit.

Instead of packing that much color in that area, this guy would not have been sitting like

a rock.

Deanna.

This thing looks beat in there.

It looks rough.

This is wall-to-wall oversaturation just pounded.

Open skin in this small, tight of a thing is your friend for sure.

The rough part on the wheel, is that trauma or is it not?

With no actual cuts, but you go over it too many times, it's going to heal rougher.

It just, I mean, that's just what it is.

Steve's trying to save his team.

All right, judges, time to determine winner of best tattoo of the day.

For me,

What I like about this tattoo is that you were able to take an idea that was potentially pretty

stiff and turn it into something artistically really interesting.

Without a doubt, my vote is for Josh as well.

Chris.

Unanimously, Josh.

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

Congratulations, man.

All right, coaches.

Remember, you must now deliberate and put one artist up for elimination.

You can all.

Head back to the lot.

All right, guys, man, I'm just going to be honest with you.

Deanna, there's an area about this big.

There's like a hole and some cut marks.

That's the number one ticket to the bottom.

I look at it, I didn't see any damage.

I think you're insane for thinking a tiny spot this big is a bigger problem than a tattoo

this big that's just done bad.

Last time I was talking, I was talking to her.

Overall, the piece had solid saturation and, and.

If you have trauma, you go to the bottom.

Deanna, you did an unfinished tattoo.

You did .

Whales.

When have you ever seen a balloon with whales?

Are they finished?

Did you finish or you didn't?

I finished.

Look at the tattoo.

If you didn't finish.

You're blind, Steve.

You're blind.

You keep voting me down, ain't going to work.

All right, guys.

We're here for the coaches meeting to determine who we're going to put up for elimination.

Jeremy just has a real unfinished look to me on the frame.

I really like the balloons.

I like what he went for.

The framework is rough.

The line work is rough.

The galaxy's decent.

I know what it is.

That galaxy is unacceptable.

But when I talk about bad galaxies, bring up Deanna's, because that's a horror show.

Deanna's is just overworked in the bottom.

See that heavy line with the V in the basket?

That is dug in there.

But I don't think her lines are that bad.

Comparing Deanna's to Jeremy's just right away, Deanna's is better.

But application-wise, I can't get over the way the bottom was applied on Deanna's.

So today we're testing detail with Technicolor hot air balloons.

I think a lot of missed opportunities for some straightforward, basic tattooing here.

Deanna's rough application puts her in the bottom.

When you look at that close, you can see how it's just rough.

And that's overworking the skin.

Yeah.

Jeremy would be one that I would throw in the bottom.

The guy out-thought himself.

Those balloons are screwed up, and this frame is not clean.

Inconsistencies are just abundant.

I expected to see more imagery from Amanda, but she's dropped them off.

Amanda's outlines are really weak.

She tried to put all these different tones in there when it would have been great to just

make simple pink bows.

Against the green background, there's your technicolor play.

Our entire field needs a color wheel for Christmas.

It's really going to be tough to determine who goes home this week.

I wonder what the coaches are going to do.

Jeremy is going to the bottom for sure.

There's four people that could potentially be there.

Jeremy, Roly, Deanna got some bad ones, Daniel.

You can talk a lot of all of a sudden you won one.

You can talk all the you want.

Hey, we all gave you your victory clearly without saying anything about you winning.

All right, coaches, which artists you sending down for elimination?

The coaches have decided to send Deanna down to the bottom.

You see Deanna, Jeremy, and Amanda and the

coaches downstairs.

Damn.

All right, guys, let's do this.

Today, you had to tattoo Technicolor hot air balloons.

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

Let's hear from the coaches.

Guys, why did you vote Deanna to the bottom?

Application.

If you cause trauma in any way, shape, or form, that's it for me.

I know it's not my best work.

I'm not delirious.

But I still feel like there are areas in there where I show that I can do basic application.

She still has solid line work.

If Deanna's was on Jeremy's canvas's leg, I think it would have looked better.

Mine is going to heal good.

I don't think there's going to be big scabs all over it.

It looks pretty.

But on detail day, the frame becomes your nemesis.

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

They're not the same.

I'm pretty embarrassed about that frame.

I can tell you one thing, it's never going to happen again.

I mean, I know the guy can tattoo, but he likes to do a lot of .

Reining him in is really the only challenge I have with him.

Would you say Jeremy's outline is better or worse than Amanda's?

I'm having a hard time with Amanda's.

The outline is so thin, your tattoo doesn't have the bones to support the weight that you

put in the color.

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

I think I just kind of got ahead of myself when I was designing it and thinking I could do

all this color in the amount of time I had.

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

My decision is Jeremy.

You made poor choices in putting this frame there.

The fact that you can color yellow up to a line and it takes the line out, that line is hollow.

That line is weak.

That line is not in there.

I got to go with Amanda.

Amanda.

The judges have decided, Amanda, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Mastery.

I think you did a beautiful drawing.

Don't rush it.

Make cleaner decisions, and you wouldn't be in this situation.

Please pack your machines and close shop.

I'm a lot happier to be able to go home on a tattoo that I like.

To me, it was really kind of a test of myself in that I could hang with the big boys, because

I'm not as well known as a lot of the other artists that are here.

I think that I'm going to leave this competition a lot stronger than I came into it.

A Vinkmaster.

lose as a team right now.

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

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

You must compete in a marathon designed to put your teamwork to the ultimate test.

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

I don't see what you're saying.

These guys got to learn to tattoo under pressure.

Their team is going to fall apart.

100%.

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

Do you want to actually win?

This is your chance.

Show us you have it.

I mean, what the , man?