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

Things are going to change drastically.

In the Flash Challenge, Team Anthony pulled off a surprise victory.

The winner of today's Flash Challenge is Team Anthony.

Woo!

Thank you, guys.

I think that our main target should be Matt.

Let's take him out.

In the elimination tattoo, Team DJ struggled to survive.

What was the strategy going into that skull pick?

Stump you.

This is not going well.

I think your team is way more in trouble than mine.

They'll prove themselves.

Obviously, you're going to come after the dude that was put on paper number one right out

the gate.

We went after you because out of your team, you're the weakest link.

You're lying out your ass.

In the elimination, Katie, Lil D, and Matt were the bottom three artists.

Katie.

You've got to be more precise.

I'm sorry, y'all.

She did not have the worst in the room.

Lil D.

If you had a little bit more of an interesting drawing, there wouldn't be debates back and

forth.

Matt.

There's outline problems.

There's shading problems.

There's color saturation problems.

It's messy, man.

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

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

the title of

Ink Master.

We got

tattoo of the day.

Katie is back.

We're not getting rid of her that easy.

I'm just excited to make it back up here.

Don't let nobody get to you no more.

It's a mental game.

We got this.

We need control of this game.

Team DJ is reeling right now.

They're on one leg right now.

All we got to do is chop the other one off.

I don't expect mercy, and there will be none given.

These guys are playing a hell of a strategy.

They painted the target.

They took a couple out.

that we're at four, but we're the four that have been by your side and listened and paid attention

the whole time.

I'm ready to fight.

I know you guys are.

We're paying targets on them now.

Yeah, that's chess time.

We're taking them out one way or the other.

Welcome, guys.

10 artists have already been sent packing, but the competition isn't getting any easier.

Nope.

Outlast the rest of your competitors, and you will earn $100,000, a feature in Inked Magazine,

and the title of Ink Master.

There it is.

For this flash challenge, your success will be dependent on each other, because coaches, once

again, you'll be working side by side with your teams.

Oh, yeah.

Nice.

Yeah.

This week, we're testing precision.

Precision is basically being very deliberate in your actions and making sure that everything

goes exactly where you want it.

Today, you must create a masterpiece.

Dot by dot.

First, you must stencil your design onto an eight foot by eight foot adhesive board.

Then, using colored dots the size of a hole punch, you must precisely place each one to create

an impressive work of art.

The holes are the same as eight foot by eight foot.

I don't know how anyone can finish this in time.

Win this challenge and your team will have the power

twist all of the human canvases in the elimination tattoo.

Yeah, we need that.

That's ours.

Shots were fired last week.

Today, you have to produce the winner.

Think outside the box.

Get artistic, outthink each other, do something precise.

You have five hours, and your time starts now.

Who has ideas and what are they?

For this flash challenge,

They have literally hundreds of thousands of different color hole punches to apply to this

huge adhesive board.

See how trippy that is?

Something's wrong with it, though.

It is.

It's supposed to be.

It trips you out, but it's all precision.

We're testing precision.

Every single dot needs to be perfect.

What's your idea?

Like a scenery in here and a door in here.

We've got both of both worlds.

I want to step away from what they're expecting.

They said think outside the box.

All right, next person.

A hole in the wall with a hand coming out, holding a chess piece.

than on the floor be the chessboard.

Actually, that's cool.

Are you kidding me?

Who would have thought Jason's taking control once again?

Dead center?

Yes, dead center would come out this way.

So you basically have tunnel vision.

I want this skull pick.

Our last one did a lot of damage to DJ's team, and I want that opportunity again.

I want to make something that makes your eyes go nuts, but make it simple.

I think a lot of people are going to get way too crazy with this.

I think the other teams are going to go way too weird.

This is going to be a time when less is more.

DJ, this will let you see what was in my head.

This square is one solid color.

Then we have that square one solid color.

Aha.

You like this idea?

I think it's going to be dope.

Yeah, I think it's going to be sick.

Shows precision and ingenuity.

Great.

Come to find out, Steve used to be a construction worker.

He could measure things out really well.

He knows how to lay things out perfectly symmetrical.

Do we want to do a couple floating ones, smaller ones in the corners and stuff?

I don't want to get crazy with it, because we still got to do galaxy.

That's just sticky paper, and you're rocking.

OK.

We need to win this.

We need to assign these skulls to start taking fools out.

We're going to use your hand.

OK.

To make that alien by paper, I'm going to get this on the wall.

Dude, you can cut him out with the exacto blade.

And if we feel like he spits, perfect.

If not, you know?

But that way, it's like a done piece of art.

I feel like it's a blessing to still be here after being at the bottom the last couple times.

So I'm just going to keep trying my best and hope for the best outcome.

What if we can figure out a way to attach that square at the end that sticks out?

We can make it out of the back of this .

Nothing makes me happier than seeing Team DJ be totally ahead of the game with one man down.

Let's stay in motion, and then we're good.

Three more hours.

I think the chess piece can be in color.

We were discussing the color options.

No one said anything.

The only thing that gets me nervous is the fact that I'm on a team.

You want this to be coloring?

Art's going to be color.

The galaxy's going to be color.

It needs to be a three-thing balance.

I'm just saying.

If I was by myself, I would never get nervous because I really know what I'm doing.

It scares me that my fate relies on the hands of other people.

That's not me.

Don't freak out or anything, you know?

Just relax.

All right, well, let's not start getting chaotic now.

We have pulls together.

Yeah, yeah.

To be honest with you, I'd rather have more planets on this side.

I'm almost done on this part.

Let him with the black.

We need a bunch of stuff over here so it's balanced.

All right, Gary, can you switch to that side?

There's a lot of pressure being a coach because I have to perform for my own personal gains,

but also have the fate of my teammates.

On my back and on my shoulders.

You want to plant it right here?

Or something.

I know what it takes to win, and I'm going to push these guys kicking and screaming all the

way to the final.

Sorry, guys.

Just a little stressed.

We're good, baby.

One hour remaining.

A little bit more.

Open this thing up so I can tape it, guys.

There.

Now we can work.

Good.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

That's it.

Time is up.

Woo-hoo!

You look badass.

It's clean.

It looks good.

It's precision.

All right, guys, time to critique your work.

Team Steve.

The shapes are very interesting.

They lead your eye on a ride.

And they do look very precise.

You guys also hit some nice shading.

The planet in the bottom right corner, the vortex in the back.

You are also able to show pretty perfect circles.

And then you have the free-flowing spiral galaxy going through the background.

Definitely hits precision.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Team Steve has a piece that has a shadow on both sides, which just is theoretically and physically

impossible.

But I guess their shapes are impossible, so their shading can be just as as their shape, I

guess.

Team Anthony.

Guys, there's definitely a lot of precision in this piece.

The segments from black to white in the floor, the lines in the bricks, really crisp, really

clean.

I also really appreciate the fact that you were able to put an organic human hand based out

of these hole punches into this piece to give it just another sense of dimension and an entirely

different look.

Good job, man.

Anthony's design is looking pretty creative.

I wonder if he went too simple.

All right, team DJ.

Y'all do a great job getting color saturation on this.

As far as precision goes, you really keep it tight.

There doesn't seem to be hardly any areas where the wrong color is in the wrong spot.

Every shape, every triangle, every square is very definitive.

This thing is so mathematically precise that it was a nice touch to put an organic figure,

like a human being, in the center of this thing.

Very nice job, guys.

Thank you.

Awesome.

Team DJ's design kind of look like a holiday dinner plate with a fetus in the middle.

Houston, we have a baby in space.

with a full diaper.

We need someone out here quick.

Judges, it is time to determine who wins this flash challenge.

The graphic look at Team DJ's for me really just is such a powerful punch.

It stands out.

It's arguably one of the most complex and the most simplistic at the same time.

I vote for Team DJ.

You're crazy.

To achieve a human hand in any medium is challenging.

My vote is for Team Anthony.

Team DJ.

Yeah.

The judges have decided the winner of today's flash challenge is Team DJ.

Yes.

Good job, guys.

You guys killed it.

On a precision challenge, every bit of shading in every piece of the black and white is the

exact same amount from side to side.

There is not a careless piece in there.

How the hell did Team DJ win?

Our design is way better.

I just sent Matt Buck home, so I know that they're coming after me.

Congratulations, guys.

You'll have the power to assign all the human canvases in the elimination tattoo as a team.

We're taking shots with mother skulls.

Head on back to the loft.

You guys are getting pixelated and distorted, mixed up.

No, you are.

I just don't think you can do what I ask for.

I think there was just a miscommunication there.

I'm not even listening anymore.

Team Anthony just took out one of our top guys.

We gotta load bigger bullets in our guns and pop back.

We're going after Jason.

He took so many personal shots at everybody on this team.

It's time to send them all right back to him.

We got Warren.

What can Warren not do?

He's a big, bold image guy.

It's a flea market tattoo.

Yep.

All the stuff.

I think we need to shut down Daniel's cockiness.

If he does a bad tattoo and gets ripped apart, I don't think he's going to handle a hard critique.

I'd love to see him down there.

He would leak hair gel everywhere.

Like you melted a Ken doll with a lighter.

Welcome to the elimination tattoo.

This is your chance to show us precisely why you deserve to be here.

And coaches, don't forget, the stronger your team, the greater advantage you have.

Every artist from your team that makes it to the finale earns you the ability to call a shot

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

Today, you must create pixelated tattoos.

Is there an instruction booklet for pixel tattoos?

I have no idea how to make one of those.

A pixelated tattoo is taking an image and breaking that down into individual squares and individual

colors.

The word of the day is precision.

You have to be precise with these lines and squares and shapes.

If you have to repeat a shape dozens or more times,

We're going to compare each shape that you make against every other shape that you make.

Doesn't matter what you've done in the past, you're up, you're out.

Here we go.

Let's meet your canvases.

Team DJ.

You won the flash challenge.

You now have the power to assign the human canvases.

DJ, pick two artists from your team to talk to the canvases.

I'm going to pick Little D and Frank.

Come on up.

Do good, boys.

Get them, boys.

I would be worried if you were not on Team DJ.

We're going to find the weirdest canvases and give them to the biggest players on each of

the teams.

What would you like to get today?

A pixelated desktop computer with a 3D scone side.

I would like to get a mermaid with pixelating scales and pixelated water background.

A circle with a rainbow ray of light going through and then bursting into pixelated colors.

What?

How is that going to be a cool tattoo?

It's just going to look like a blob of pixels.

I would like a color illustrative motorcycle pixelating down a racetrack.

That might be a tricky one.

There's so much details in this motorcycle.

Nah, bro, I don't want this.

You could ride your pixelated motorcycle.

Right out the door.

Pixelated world map with the pixelated airplane.

A lot of pixels.

Yep.

Love it.

You mean what the campuses want?

They're even going to be hard without pixels.

And it's going to be impossible to do them with pixels.

There's a lot of tough ones in there, huh?

One of the hardest ones.

Black lady who wants the colored stuff on there with the circle in the room.

Oh, yeah.

Pixelated map with the pixelated airplane.

The mermaid with the water background and all that.

That's so much chaos.

So let's get this straight so no one can stop.

OK.

Team DJ.

Team DJ is definitely going to screw me.

This one's for you.

Thanks.

I mean, I already took out one of the best players.

I'm definitely going to get the worst skull pick here.

Plane?

Map?

Yeah.

Yours.

Thank you.

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

Amanda?

Right here.

Katie?

That's me.

Little D.

That's me.

This is the mermaid.

Exolated water.

Jason?

Right here.

Nice.

I got the mermaid.

Bring it, guys.

Fame.

Jeremy.

What's up, man?

It's a circle.

That's going to be hard.

Daniel.

Stoked.

Pixelated circle?

A circle has to be perfect all the way around.

And for it to be pixelated is not a circle at all.

I like that.

Mike.

Right here.

I got you, man.

Josh.

It's all me, my man.

Juan.

Got you, man.

You want a pixelated airplane with a pixelated world map?

You know how much work it takes?

Are you crazy?

Frank.

All day.

Gary.

Right here.

Deanna.

Hey.

Broly.

Hey.

Oh, man, I'm killing this .

You'll have six hours to show precision by creating a pixelated tattoo.

It's up to you to make every pixel count, or you will be out.

Good luck.

Get him, guys.

In this challenge, we're looking for precision.

Follow me.

Come on.

It's a lot of little squares, a lot of detail.

Everything needs to be as smooth and seamless as possible.

The thing is with the mermaid is that it's not that it's hard.

It's just time consuming.

So motorcycle was the idea.

Yeah, like a drag racing motorcycle.

Say the pixelated doesn't fit very well with the motorcycle.

What other ideas did you have?

Oh, that was what I really wanted to get today.

Maybe kind of difficult for this.

And one of the things I think is cool about it is that

I mean, that's one thing you can use to denote the speed, because all the pixels flying off

the back.

I'm worried that there's a lot of details.

All right, the other thing I want is a woman riding the bike.

This is a design that I can crash and burn on.

We definitely had to go with some black and gray to make sure that we get a little detail.

Yeah, that's fine.

So you flexible on that part?

Yeah.

Awesome, nice.

Just in case we don't have the time, we can have both stencils ready, work on the plane, finish

the plane, and we still have like three hours.

Work on the map.

I don't want just the plane.

We have a very limited time to finish this, but no matter what I do, my canvas is definitely

not budging under the sun.

I think you're making the plane a little larger than what I wanted.

OK.

I'm totally screwed.

Red, orange, this is a skin break.

If you just have too much space between a bunch of blocks, it's hard to tell what it is.

And they still precision, too.

And no one's going to out-precise me.

I know they said pixels.

I guarantee you they don't want to see an image with just random pixels not connected.

They're going to want that image pixelated.

I promise.

I don't know what to do on that.

What kind of colors are you going to use?

With this, black and gray is going to be the best thing to keep.

That's not what I asked for, man.

I asked for the graphic, vibrant color.

That's what I want.

No, but you did say we were kind of open with the whole thing, right?

Talked about some of the background having some gray.

No, that's with the motorcycle parts.

No, I want color.

It's not going to.

It won't work.

If you're going to give me a tattoo, it's going to be a color tattoo, buddy.

Yeah, well, but with the one in the new.

What's going on?

I asked for a color tattoo.

He came and he showed me this.

It's just a matter of turning this from black and gray to color.

He said, I can't do this in color.

I'm thinking about your skin long-term.

You know, I just don't think you can do what I ask for.

No, color's not an issue for Mike.

I think there was just a miscommunication there.

Well, now I don't trust him.

Why?

You didn't listen to me and comes back with something totally different than I asked for.

I don't want to do it with you.

If I can't get what I want, then I'm done.

I am completely screwed right now.

I even tried to talk him down.

I even told him, hey, give me a chance.

Let me talk to you.

And he was like, no.

If I don't do a tattoo today, this could be it.

I could be going home.

So look, we're going to figure out what happens.

What's happening, guys?

I need to know the options.

At home, a customer can leave and you get another one.

And here, you have to do a tattoo.

Is your thigh open?

You don't have to do this tattoo.

You can do whatever you want.

It has to hit the challenge, and you can tattoo yourself.

OK.

Or you could tattoo one of the coaches if they gave you some skin.

Right.

I hate getting tattooed, but I'll go put some shorts on, bro.

We could do a clean black and gray rose and pixelate it good.

Pull it up.

Let's look at some references.

All right, cool.

I really don't want to get tattooed.

Damn.

I'll be light on you, man.

I promise.

Bro, you better.

I'll kick you in your balls so hard.

God.

Artists, you have six hours to create a pixelated tattoo.

And your time starts now.

All righty.

Let's do the thing.

Pixelated tattoos are a tough thing to pull off.

These artists could get lost in their own interpretations.

What do you think of that?

Hell yeah.

Killer.

If you're not crystal clear on what you're supposed to deliver, you will definitely end up

on the bottom and potentially go home.

Ready?

Yep.

So what I was thinking of doing, too, was putting a triangle.

Yeah, we're definitely going to do a triangle.

See, we're already on the same page, dude.

I'm telling you.

Just make it hurt.

I appreciate you jumping in.

You guys are in the time a minute with you, right?

Yeah.

This is why I picked to be on Anthony's team, because of who he is.

And the fact that he steps up and he's jumping in says a whole lot.

But at the same time, I feel like I'm taking my coach away from the team.

Man, I'm a whole big old bag of complications.

I got it.

I'm going to take care of my step kid over here.

These are dope, but do me this favor.

This stuff right here, do more of that.

Just make sure they're straight.

I'm in a position right now I'm not supposed to be in.

OK.

So now you've got to help me out.

You're part of the family now.

Watch.

I'm right here.

OK.

All right?

Yeah, I got you.

He's about to get tatted.

He's not looking forward to it.

So you think I should leave the outside blocks open?

If you think so, then do it.

If you don't think so, don't do it.

My canvas, his arm is all broken out because of razor burn.

He shaved himself before he came to get tattooed.

Don't be afraid to put black in.

It actually belongs there.

Trying to make straight lines on top of razor burn is really difficult because you're going

over bumps.

It's just a disaster.

Are you doing all solid black right there?

No, this is black right now.

My biggest issue right now with this tattoo is these pixels are looking like crossword puzzles.

I don't know if that's the right way to do it.

I don't want to come from a tattoo today to go to the bottom.

You have four hours to go.

You are sweating, bro.

Fresh real estate.

Is the air on over here?

Got you, bud.

Here.

Here.

Coach you through it.

I'm vested in my team just as much as they are in me.

I'm putting my flesh on the line to save somebody I don't know.

That's what this competition is about.

You are 10 times a better coach.

I might even call you a better man at this point.

I'm not even lying, bro.

I'm busy being a human canvas.

So walking my artist through the rest of this tattoo is pretty much impossible.

What's that, dog?

My interpretation.

Pixelated?

Pixelated.

OK.

Pixels are a light of color that make up an image.

That's what a pixel is, right?

Every single person has squares in their tattoos.

And I'm the only one with 100 circles.

I don't know where the memo of squares came into this place, but I definitely didn't get the

memo.

You guys are getting pixelated and distorted, mixed up.

No.

You are.

I thought it was up to my own artistic interpretation of what pixels are going to look like.

Squares, checkerboards, circles.

It's all the same.

They're all shaped.

What's up with Daniel?

He just made up his own .

I told these guys this is my suggestion.

Yeah.

You guys want to do it or you don't.

You can only hand hold for so long, and they got to put the gloves on.

Peace.

You better practice your condolence speeches.

I'm in trouble for sure.

Just in case, I got to put some squares in this thing and make sure I don't go home.

Yeah, that's a sexy mermaid, dude.

In this competition, to have a coach tell me what to do is a hard thing, because I've been

on my own since I was 16.

Today, Anthony's under the needle the whole time that we're tattooing, which means that I

get 100% control of this design.

So I got to make sure that this tattoo is super cool.

That hurts.

If I went home just because my canvas walked out, god, it would be devastating.

I grew up in the projects with a single mom, and we literally had nothing.

Ever since I was little, I was determined to be successful.

I can't thank you enough for jumping in.

All right, bro.

Hey, it means a lot.

This is your final hour.

It's been rough for me to realize that after 24 years, I'm not as good as somebody that might

have been tattooed for five.

But I didn't have the same advantages that they did.

And tattooing wasn't always about being artistic.

It was about street credit.

The white ones, maybe you can keep a little closer, like that one white.

Yeah.

I try to stay humble.

I'm going to keep learning until I'm done tattooing, which I hope isn't for another 20 years.

One.

That's it.

Machines down.

Time is up.

You did it, man.

Holy .

That's awesome.

Amazing, dude.

Thanks, man.

I appreciate it.

You like it, bro.

That is clean.

I love it, bro.

Family, man.

Hell, yeah.

Family.

Yeah, you came through.

Let me kind of wipe some of that goo off of there.

Not bad.

Should have loaded that shotgun before you took fire at me.

I nailed it.

You did someone else's mermaid with squares around it.

Oh, yeah.

I don't think yours fades out perfectly where you can see it and back feet and everything.

You know what?

Those don't even look straight to me.

We'll see.

I also didn't talk my canvas into a tattoo she's not going to be happy with.

She is super happy.

I think she might have cried.

I would have cried, too, if I had that on me.

Nothing solid, nothing smooth, nothing saturated.

Just start packing right now.

There's definitely more people who dropped the ball.

Katie, do not poke the .

That was not the easiest challenge in the world, but pixelation and just putting squares over

top of images is two totally different things.

So that's your opinion, bro.

This is the reason why your team had six pieces that make no sense, because you're the coach.

Dude, your opinion to me means nothing.

You're a wannabe.

I am a thing.

I would like to see you compete in this house.

He did it.

I just beat two guys in the house.

He did it, bro.

Four of yours could be in the bottom three.

He's definitely at the bottom.

I think D's getting by on this one.

There's no way you can look at his tattoo and tell me that's a good tattoo.

It's a good tattoo.

At least I had a tattoo where he could be like, here's a skull with the Indian headdress.

There was a couple down there where I was like, what the ?

You guys are blind to what the is going on.

No one is blind to Dee.

Look at the lines.

There's not a solid black.

Seven lines in it.

And four of them are wonky.

Compared to half your team, you add up all those lines and cut.

I don't know what you're looking at.

Your artist got way more wonky lines and designs.

Dee's got it.

Dee's got it.

Today, he's OK.

Today, you had to show precision by creating pixelated tattoos.

Let's see how you did.

Team Steve, you're up first.

Fame.

This thing is challenged throughout.

You have these pixels in the background, but then you have the same exact tones in the pixels

in front of this thing, which is really making it kind of difficult to read and understand

why these pixels are there.

Precision day.

Pixels aside, the line work is busted.

Nothing solid, nothing smooth, nothing saturated.

this beat.

Jeremy.

The image of the witch is very nice.

You did place these pixelated colors in the areas that they're supposed to be.

But you don't really have color blended feel.

It's not a transition of colors that's going to make this fire look smooth.

You lost it on the precision of that.

Rolling.

Precision here is something that you miss.

If the black was black, if every bit of it was colored perfect, it would have a different

impact in the way this thing looks as finished.

If you can't color 10 of these things solid, then don't give yourself 200.

It's not going to go in your favor.

Gary.

From a distance, you look at this, and the pixels actually work as the way they're supposed

to work.

The problem with this tattoo is where you put your pixels, you put them in these square blocks

instead of letting them actually break up and be pixelated.

Katie.

Your challenge right out of the gate, just not doing the most simplest thing.

A skull, realistic, black and gray.

Anybody that can't do that, just go start packing right now.

The line work in this thing is rough.

He had severe razor burn, and he was gushing blood.

If you look at the whole top of this outline of the computer, it is a bumpy ride.

Team DJ, you're up.

Josh.

This is a smooth tattoo.

Definitely you get the idea that this realistic image is turning into pixels and fading off

into nothing.

When a room has a rough day and somebody just puts out something clean and nice, it's like,

phew, word.

It's a good-looking tattoo.

Frank.

The bird looks great.

You pull this richness off in that, and then everything that got the pixel treatment just

looks washed out.

All these light tones, they're just not solid.

They're not punched in.

They're not precise.

Deanna.

It's a beautiful tattoo.

It's a great illustration.

You have very crisp areas.

It's a very beautiful opening of a flower.

The lack of black outline on it looks unfinished.

As time goes on, this thing's not going to last.

Little D.

It is very legible.

The biggest thing about this for me is color saturation.

All the red squares are not solid.

The areas of outline that you have, the butt up to the headdress, you can see all the wavering

lines.

This one's super challenged.

Team Anthony, you're up.

Mike.

Anytime you have somebody walk, there's a reason for that.

I don't blame the guy for not wanting to get tattooed because he wanted something, and you

try to bait and switch him.

But I personally like this tattoo.

It definitely shows precision.

You probably have some of the nicest squares that are outlined.

Your shading is very nice and smooth.

It's a beautiful tattoo.

One.

First thing I'll say about this tattoo is when you look at it from a distance, there's no

question.

to exactly what it is.

But your squares get a lot of wonky lines.

DJ's team pitched you a tough ball.

This is a hard one to hit.

Jason.

The precision in the pixelation is very nice.

You really get a beautiful, delicate little face.

I feel like you really took your time and paid attention to every little bit of this tattoo

and concentrated on the precision part of the challenge.

Amanda.

When looking at your saturation of your squares, you're one of the strongest of the day.

But the head of the bird doesn't look like it goes with this body.

You've got these crazy big jowls of the neck that don't really fit the connection.

It's like misjointed.

Daniel.

All these crazy line patterns and stuff you're doing, that's cool.

But at some point, you're going to have to really show things that you can do that are outside

of this.

There's some really great line work in here.

Precision is line work.

Precision is also coloring in a square perfectly.

The top of this tattoo, there's not a lot of precision in that.

To me, it just sucks a lot of these guys designed and tried to put something together that

made sense.

Daniel did a Daniel tattoo until we all picked on him enough that he slapped some pixels in

the back, called it a galaxy, and that's the difference.

That may be true, but I think he's gotten critiqued for exactly that.

Shut up, Daniel.

Just stop.

I don't know why you're getting at me right now.

What's going on over there?

He's got an ego problem.

He's coming up here saying under his breath.

Always when my tattoo comes up, they all have something to say.

This is a competitive game, man.

I'm not a tattoo artist, but I am an artist.

And we all have egos.

So let's try and keep that in check and compete and move on.

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

I am 100% with Josh because Josh went the farthest mile to pull off the look of what

the ask was.

As far as going with precision, honestly, leaning more towards Jason just because it's so

precise, all these details.

I love the little bit of face.

It just came out beautifully.

For overall readability, my vote's for Jason.

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

All right, coaches, remember, you must deliberate and put one artist up for elimination.

You can all head back to the loft.

You, my friend, got lucky.

The lines were clean, the color was solid, and that's what they saw.

I think Daniel's scared as .

That's why he's over here pretending he's comfortable and good.

Look how hurt you were about not getting tattooed today.

I haven't got tattooed today one single time.

I don't know why you're talking a big game, honestly.

I don't talk a big game, man.

I keep my mind shut.

It's one Daniel, zero Josh.

Wait until you go down the bottom.

Wait until you get at the top.

It feels good.

I think there was definitely more people that dropped the ball harder than you did.

Yeah.

Precision?

Line work?

Katie?

Do not play with me.

Bro.

Do not play with me.

How sad were you when I had a better critique than you, though?

I wasn't sad.

Tears, bro.

I'm not sad.

Tears.

When did I cry, Daniel?

Yeah, don't play with me.

Do not poke the bear.

I don't know what good a bear you're talking about, but.

Do not with me.

All right, guys.

We're here to determine who we're putting up for elimination.

Daniel, the pretty boy.

I get seizures when I look at it.

All I see is chaos.

And it looks like two different people.

His line work on the bottom, great.

Off to the top, sketchy everywhere.

In my opinion, there's a worse one.

Fame knocked it out of the park last time.

Not here.

The structure of this tattoo was chewed up.

And then the shading and the color packing, that is worse than Daniel's.

I'm telling you now, there is no skin trauma.

And if you really want to go trauma, I'll bring up my own.

Let's look at Katie's.

Yeah.

This is a shock.

She had a rough time.

The dude was bleeding.

This is riddled with trauma.

I cannot defend that.

And I don't want to lose another teammate.

All right, tough day.

Pixelated tattoos.

On the day that we're looking for precision, we see the worst outlines that we've seen ever

from this group.

Yeah.

Fame's is probably one of the worst.

The pixels themselves are not precise.

Some of the worst.

Nor do they make any sense whatsoever where they're placed.

It's terrible.

Little D falls short.

When you look at precision,

There's nothing clean about it.

It is messy and scratchy and not solid.

Katie did a really bad job.

Oh, yeah.

All she had to do was simply put an outline around this computer.

It looks so painful.

She's definitely in the bottom for me.

But I would put Daniel in there as well.

This swirl is terrible.

Worst idea he could ever come up with.

He added it in the last hour.

Him doing that at the end and disrespecting the ask in the beginning is as bad as a bad tattoo.

The coaches are going to be sending someone down, and whoever they put down at the bottom

is going to speak volumes.

It'll be interesting.

I'm very anxious to see how this is going to go.

If I go down to the bottom because my canvas walked out on me and somebody with a tattoo stays

upstairs, I'm going to be pissed.

All right, coaches, who are you sending down for elimination?

Coaches have decided to send Katie down for elimination.

All right, in the bottom, we'll have Katie, Little D, and

Fane.

And I got to say, there's a bunch of you that are really lucky, especially Mike and Daniel.

All right, we'll see y'all in the coaches downstairs.

That's it for me.

You're going to sit there and laugh about it?

Don't get on me.

You don't know.

You sat there, put your head down, and laughed.

I'm excited that I'm not going to the bottom.

Yeah, I'm just going to say thank you to freaking Steve's team for going to the bottom for

me.

By the skin on your damn teeth, you got lucky.

Save it.

Daniel, sometimes you just got to shut the up.

I swear to god.

That goes for a few people in this house.

Y'all ready?

Let's do it.

Fight it, baby.

Today, you had to create pixelated tattoos.

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

Let's hear from the coaches.

Why did you vote Katie to the bottom?

It came down to trauma to the skin.

It's way overworked.

When I started to line, it immediately started to gush, and I was not able to get anything

to stay.

It boils down to how simple your tattoo is, and yet still how many problems there are with

precision.

There are no excuses here.

I should have done better.

The one thing I do know is this is not her work, because she's much better than this.

I could do better line work than that.

I have a little more experience than the rest of these guys.

I have more tricks in my bag.

This is one of the ones of the day that any of us would actually want on our body.

I think it looks tough.

Why is American traditional, if it looks up, that's a tough tattoo.

At 20 years, color's still not solid.

This is the simplest tattoo in the room.

This is exactly his style.

You think this is more simple than Katie's?

Yes, I do.

He dropped the ball on it, again.

For my tattoo, at least you can tell what the it is.

And at the end of the day, I got more heart than any of these .

I have a heart, too.

I mean, that's the reason I'm here.

As you can see from the last challenge, I got a tattoo today.

This tattoo is a technical application nightmare.

The challenge got to me.

You know I could do better than that.

It sucks to go from the ultimate high to the bottom.

Precision, you just don't hit.

Judges, it is time to determine who is going home.

I mean, it boils down to the technical application.

I got to go with Katie.

I can read Katie's tattoo better than I can read things.

Stay in textbook, Katie.

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

We've seen you do better tattoos than this.

It's just what happens on the day is what happens on the day.

You should walk out of here proud.

Head up.

You're good.

Thank you guys so much for giving me this opportunity.

Please pack your machines and close shop.

Thank you.

When sharks smell blood, they all swim to where it's coming from.

They knew I had a weakness.

They knew that I was an emotional person.

It is a constant, crazy mind game.

And I feel like I failed.

The next episode of Ink Master.

The big dogs took a shot at us twice now.

Yeah.

We're not going anywhere.

So he's not willing to give the canvas a tattoo to the canvas once.

I can hear you, douchebag.

There he goes again, misconstrued .

He's trying to stir up drama.

Welcome to the game, baby.

You might have cut that dude.

That could be a huge game changer.

Now who deserves to go home?

Josh's attitude is getting to everyone, and it's working.

Why doesn't everyone worry about their tattoos?

Because he jumped on everybody else.

No because he's a beast.

All right, guys.

We're here to determine who we're putting up for elimination.

Daniel, the pretty boy.

I get seizures when I look at it.

All I see is chaos.

And it looks like two different people.

His line work on the bottom, great.

Up to the top.

Sketchy everywhere.

In my opinion, there's a worse one.

Fame knocked it out of the park last time.

Not here.

The structure of this tattoo was chewed up.

And then the shading and the color packing, that is worse than Daniel's.

I'm telling you now, there is no skin trauma.

And if you really want to go trauma, I'll bring up my own.

Let's look at Katie's.

Yeah.

This is a shock.

She had a rough time.

The dude was bleeding.

This is riddled with trauma.

I cannot defend that.

And I don't want to lose another teammate.

All right, tough day.

Pixelated tattoos.

On the day that we're looking for precision, we see the worst outlines that we've seen ever

from this group.

Yeah.

Fame's is probably one of the worst.

The pixels themselves are not precise.

Some of the worst.

Nor do they make any sense whatsoever where they're placed.

It's terrible.

Little D falls short.

When you look at precision,

There's nothing clean about it.

It is messy and scratchy and not solid.

Katie did a really bad job.

Oh, yeah.

All she had to do was simply put an outline around this computer.

It looks so painful.

She's definitely in the bottom for me, but I would put Daniel in there as well.

That swirl is terrible.

Worst idea he could ever come up with.

He added it in the last hour.

Him doing that at the end and disrespecting the ask in the beginning is as bad as a bad tattoo.

The coaches are going to be sending someone down, and whoever they put down at the bottom

is going to speak volumes.

It'll be interesting.

I'm very anxious to see how this is going to go.

If I go down to the bottom because my canvas walked out on me and somebody with a tattoo stays

upstairs, I'm going to be pissed.

All right, coaches, who are you sending down for elimination?

Coaches have decided to send Katie down for elimination.

All right, in the bottom, we'll have Katie, Little D, and Fame.

And I got to say, there's a bunch of you that are really lucky, especially Mike and Daniel.

All right, we'll see you all in the coaches downstairs.

That's it for me.

You're going to sit there and laugh about it.

Don't get on me.

You don't know.

You sat there, put your head down, and laughed.

I'm excited that I'm not going to the bottom.

Yeah, I'm just going to say thank you to freaking Steve's team for going to the bottom for

me.

By the skin on your damn teeth, you got lucky.

Save it.

Daniel, sometimes you just got to shut the up.

I swear to god.

That goes for a few people in this house.

Y'all ready?

Let's do it.

Fight it, baby.

Today, you had to create pixelated tattoos.

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

Let's hear from the coaches.

Why did you vote Katie to the bottom?

It came down to trauma to the skin.

It's way overworked.

When I started to line, it immediately started to gush, and I was not able to get anything

to stay.

It boils down to how simple your tattoo is, and yet still how many problems there are with

precision.

There are no excuses here.

I should have done better.

The one thing I do know is this is not her work, because she's much better than this.

I can do better line work than that.

I have a little more experience than the rest of these guys.

I have more tricks in my bag.

This is one of the ones of the day that any of us would actually want on our body.

I think it looks tough.

Why is American traditional, if it looks up, that's a tough tattoo?

At 20 years, color's still not solid?

This is the simplest tattoo in the room.

This is exactly his style.

You think this is more simple than Katie's?

Yes, I do.

He dropped the ball on it, again.

For my tattoo, at least you can tell what the it is.

And at the end of the day, I got more heart than any of these .

I have a heart, too.

I mean, that's the reason I'm here.

As you can see from the last challenge, I got a tattoo today.

This tattoo is a technical application nightmare.

The challenge got to me.

You know I could do better than that.

It sucks to go from the ultimate high to the bottom.

Precision, you just don't hit.

Judges, it is time to determine who is going home.

I mean, it boils down to the technical application.

I got to go with Katie.

I can read Katie's tattoo better than I can read things.

Stay in textbook, Katie.

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

We've seen you do better tattoos than this.

It's just what happens on the day is what happens on the day.

You should walk out of here proud.

Head up.

You're good.

Thank you guys so much for giving me this opportunity.

Please pack your machines and close shop.

Thank you.

When sharks smell blood, they all swim to where it's coming from.

They knew I had a weakness.

They knew that I was an emotional person.

It is a constant, crazy mind game, and I feel like I failed.

On the next episode of Ink Master.

The big dogs took a shot at us twice now.

Yeah.

We're not going anywhere.

So he's not willing to give the canvas a tattoo to the canvas once.

I can hear you, douchebag.

There he goes again, misconstrued.

He's trying to stir up drama.

Welcome to the game, baby.

He might have cut that dude.

That could be a huge game changer.

Now who deserves to go home?

Josh's attitude is getting to everyone, and it's working.

Why doesn't everyone worry about their tattoos?

Because he jumps on everybody else.

No because he's a beast.