- Welcome. - Morning.
- The more artists that go home,
the tougher this competition gets.
Only one of you will earn $100,000,
a feature in "Inked" magazine, and the title of Ink Master.
Today, there's no flash challenge.
- What?
- We are moving directly into the next elimination tattoo.
- Ah. - Jesus.
- This week, we're testing finesse.
- Finesse in tattooing is how you seamlessly
flow throughout the tattoo when it comes to your
line work, your shading, your technical application.
You want it to be impeccable.
- For this elimination tattoo,
artists, you will not be creating your own designs.
- Oh, yeah, this could be bad.
- This week, the coaches will be designing the tattoos.
- Oh, all right, all right, all right.
- Coaches, you must each create a line drawing that you
and the artists on the opposing team
will tattoo on separate canvases at the same time.
- What? - Jesus.
- You will be judged directly
against the work of the opposing coach.
- Oh, [bleep].
- Fail to match them, and you'll be up for elimination.
- When someone else draws something, they're gonna have
intentions on the way that it was supposed to come out.
If you can't render it in the way that they had intended,
it can totally look like a [bleep]ed up tattoo.
- The style and subject are completely up to the coaches,
and you will have no input from either team.
- Let's see what they got. - Here we go.
- Any line that is in the stencil
has to be in your tattoo.
We're looking for you to be able to do
whatever they can do.
- To make it to the end, you must show the expertise
and finesse that your coaches show every time they tattoo.
- Fair enough.
- Coaches, this is your chance to knock
an artist from the opposing team
out of the competition and weaken your opponent.
- Oh, yeah. - This is [bleep] ridiculous.
- Be strategic.
As you know, every artist from your team that makes it
to the finale earns you the power to sabotage
your opponent in your final grudge match
for $100,000 of your own.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Artists, head to the loft while your coaches design.
Once their designs are complete,
you'll return to the shop, and we'll bring in your canvases.
Head out.
- I just can't wait to get schooled on my black and gray.
Show me what you got, Kyle. [laughs]
- Coaches, get to work on your designs, and good luck.
- All right. - All right.
- In this challenge, we're looking for the artist to show
finesse with their tattoos.
Whether they draw it or somebody draws it for them,
we want to see smooth,
confident professional tattooing.
- I'm gonna be [bleep] tattooing my ass off, so.
- I like the grip idea.
What else are you gonna put with it?
- I'm gonna do a needle kind of hanging off the end.
- All right.
- The big twist about this challenge
is Christian and Cleen, they can pinpoint
which artist on the other team they really are gunning for.
- I'm going right after Kyle, because he literally told me
he'd go head to head with me anytime, anywhere.
So, here we go, bud.
- They can single someone out
to try to knock them out of this competition.
- Oh my God.
- Black and gray realistic no outline.
What do you think they're gonna do
with that chin and that nose?
- The hair. What are they gonna do with the hair?
- Oh, they're gonna bust that hair.
- I'm a little worried about you guys on Team Cleen.
- You've been talking a lot about wanting to go
head to head with Christian, so.
- Now's my chance.
- Well, this is a perfect time for every single person
in here to put our money where our mouth is.
- Let's put these kids to the test.
- Honestly, today, I feel like it's almost
you and me against them.
♪ ♪
- What's up, guys?
- Well, we're gonna keep it pretty straightforward.
- What you got for us? - Black and gray.
- Okay. - But that's not all.
No liners. Mags only.
A liner is like a pencil.
A mag is like a big paintbrush.
So if you take the pencil away,
they can't do simple lines.
You have to have complete needle control
to be able to pull off this tattoo using only a mag.
Good luck, everybody.
- You son of a bitch.
- All right, what we're gonna do
is a color, new-school, Cleen Rock One style tattoo.
- Whoo-hoo-hoo! - Nice.
- Stoked. - Why you all quiet, TeeJ?
- I'm just taking it, baby.
- Kyle's gonna show me black and gray today.
I'm here for a lesson.
- I can finally go head to head with Christian,
which I'm [bleep] stoked about.
I'm not here to back down.
♪ ♪
- All right, guys, you have six hours.
And your time starts now.
Let's do some [bleep] black and gray with no liners!
Yeah! - Yeah!
- Go for it.
- The coaches are setting the bar here,
and it's a chance to eliminate a competitor from another team.
But for the teams...
- She fits really well.
- This is a chance to shut up a coach.
- Do this. [bleep] hooting and hollering!
- I'm looking for somebody to take what their coach
gives them and run with it, and show me something that
I'm like, wow, you beat him at his own game.
♪ ♪
- Today is gonna be a good day.
I'm just gonna attack this challenge like I would tattoo
any tattoo flash at a shop.
- You have such a steady hand, I can feel it.
- And apply it as best I can.
That's what I do for a living.
Team Cleen definitely has a harder ask today.
♪ ♪
- Kid stuff today.
I'm super stoked.
This is my first chance to go directly at Team Cleen.
- I realized that if I didn't come over and take a peek
at what you were doing, I might kill myself.
- Nothing fancy, trying to lay some blacks in.
I do a type of tattooing that none of them
has any idea how to even approach.
I left my hand over the hair so he can't see it.
[chuckles] - Sneaky.
His problem to figure. - That's right.
If you guys think you can go toe to toe with the big boys,
now's your chance to show it.
- Don't go share your secrets with that boy.
- That's right.
- I would love to beat Christian at his own game.
Do you think it'd be too ballsy to do mag hair?
- You know he's not going to, because you're going to be
putting your piece next to his, I would 100% say don't do it.
- All right.
He walks around like he's king of the castle,
and all kings die someday.
And I want to be that sword he falls on.
- Go for soft.
- Five hours remaining, everybody.
Five hours remaining.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Dude, I [bleep] hate not using a liner.
- Are you pulling lines with that?
- Yeah. - Don't make it too hard, man.
You've got to keep it kind of soft,
because you know Christian, that's what he's good at.
- Yeah, I will.
I outline everything first before I shade it.
But I can't use a liner. I have to use my mag.
And a mag is this [bleep] wide,
compared to a liner, that's a fine point.
So when I have to use this
to outline instead of this, it's hard.
- Three hours left, halfway done.
- That grip is [bleep] sick, dude.
- My whole team is counting on me
to take Christian's team out and put them in the bottom,
and that's exactly what I'm gonna do.
- And you're leaving this negative, or are you going to--
- If I've got time, I'm gonna [bleep] pack it.
I am known worldwide for my color.
So I'm gonna make sure
that there is plenty of color flying today.
- You're a bad-ass, dude.
♪ ♪
- People are expecting me to match Cleen so much,
because I do new school, and I'm the only
new school guy here. - Get your outline done?
- I just now finished. - Just finished?
- No, no, I just-- I've been coloring.
Cleen's style is very different from mine
because I like to show a lot of depth.
Cleen, he's a flat, poppy version of new school, which
I'm gonna struggle to master just as much as everyone else.
♪ ♪
- [groans]
- My canvas is taking a lot of breaks right now,
and it's really eating into my time.
- [bleep], it's tender.
- I'm not the fastest tattooer in the room, and I don't know
if I'm gonna be able to finish this tattoo the way I want to.
♪ ♪
- The background, it looks like everybody did purple.
I'm not worried about matching Cleen Rock One's style.
So I've just got to do what TeeJ's gonna do
and make it look good.
I'm gonna do this stipple, kind of coming down through it.
With me being a black and gray tattooer,
people are expecting me to drop the ball,
but they're gonna eat their words.
Hope you hungry.
- Final hour remaining.
- No! - This is your final hour.
[intense music]
- I've got an hour left, and we've got two hours of work.
- Tony, you all right? - Yeah, I'm good.
- Tiffer? - Yo.
- Turk? - Yeah.
- Kyle? - Yeah.
- Okay. - How you doing over there?
- I'm having fun, actually.
♪ ♪
- Five, four,
three, two, one.
That's it, machines down, time is up.
- Done, mother[bleep]!
- No more ink. - [laughs] To the minute.
- All right, girl, we are all done.
- I'm so happy. Thank you so much.
- Yeah, that thing looks sweet.
- It's sick.
Like, you nailed it man, absolutely.
- I don't think there's too many safe people in the room.
- I will say you kicked them all in the balls pretty hard.
- I think they know why we're coaches now.
- Exactly!
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