"Male announcer:" "This season on "Ink Master,"" "it's Peck versus Nuñez." "On the last episode," "Team Nuñez had a meltdown in the flash challenge." " Ow." " Ow, mother dick." " This [bleep] burns the [bleep] out of my hands." " This is scary as hell, but I got my technique down pretty damn quick." " What's your plan?" "Wait a minute." "Wait a minute." " I have no goddamn plan except not [bleep] die." "If I get a piece of [bleep] canvas," "I'll [bleep] lose it." " Right now I believe that you and I are the strongest artists in the team." " And I'm always gonna have your back, no matter what." " These girls have been in an alliance." " Every time we have a skull pick, you got to shoot at them." "Battle of the sexes." " I'm not afraid of the girls' alliance, but I'm just trying to protect my own ass." " Nikki." " Thank you, Kevin." " This is bull[bleep]." "There isn't a pair of balls in this [bleep] house." "announcer:" "In the Elimination Tattoo, the sexes were divided, and the guys felt the pressure." " Please kill one." "Celtics, fairies, moon, meaning of life, background." " It'll get easier as we go, man." " What, my arm's gonna get numb, is that why?" " You don't give the best person in the room the easiest canvas." " You have nothing like an alliance that we have, and..." " That's what I'm telling you." "You've got it easy because of that." "If I see your ass walk past me, I'm taking you down." " Then come at me, Sirvone." " I'm gonna come at you guns blazing." "announcer:" "In the elimination, Kevin, Tito, and Sirvone were the bottom three." " Kevin." " My big problem with this tattoo is legibility." "The middle does look like a mess." " Do I think it's the worst tattoo on the bottom?" "Absolutely not." " Tito." " This solid plaque in a tombstone shape, like, if this happened at home in my shop," "I would [bleep] my pants." " It's easy to cover." " Easy to cover?" " Sirvone." " At what point are you gonna hit the gas and take off?" " Just the concept of watercolor really bothers me." " But this is "Ink Master." That means a person who can embrace all styles." " Sirvone, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." "[dramatic music]" "♪ announcer: 13 artists remain, fighting for a spot on their team's top five, but only one artist will earn a $100,000 prize and the title of Ink Master." "[rock music]" "♪" "[dramatic music]" "♪" " The girls wanted Sirvone gone." "They were gonna send him home no matter what." " That wasn't the reason Sirvone went home, though." "Sirvone went home 'cause his tattoo was the worst of the day." " Hey, but the girls swayed the vote, man, and I'm just saying, that's the power they obviously have over this whole thing." "Gia and Ryan." "It doesn't matter who you are or how tight you are with them, they're gonna go with the girls, man." " We have to take those girls out." "♪" " I just found out that you girls are being gunned for." " Oh." " Nate said, "Anyone the girls"" "don't like go home."" " So paranoia is getting a little bit high." " They're definitely terrified." " 'Cause they can't tattoo." " They're gonna try and get either you or Ryan out." " Thanks for telling me." " Yeah, no problem." "You know some dudes when there's strong women around." "They get a little insecure... but I'm not worried about that." "[intense rock music]" "♪" " Welcome." "The smaller your team gets, the harder you must work to outshine your teammates, because in the end, only one artist will win $100,000, a feature in "Inked" magazine, and the title of Ink Master." "Also on the line, a guest spot at Chris' shop," "Hand Crafted in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, or Oliver's shop, Elm Street Tattoo in Dallas, Texas." "Each week, only one team competes as Chris and Oliver narrow their teams to the strongest five artists." "Last week, Team Nuñez competed, so this week, Team Peck, you are up for elimination." "Today, we're testing contrast." "[dramatic music]" " Contrast is basically the juxtaposition between light and dark to create a beautiful, legible image." " For today's flash challenge, you have just one material at your disposal... brown packing tape." " What?" " Your canvas today is an 8x4-foot sheet of plexiglass." "By applying layer upon layer of tape, you must create a high contrast image." " How am I gonna show contrast with tape?" "It's pretty one-dimensional." " You guys, this is gonna be a painstaking, slow process." "I don't want to see any meltdowns." "Do something creative, 'cause all you have is light and dark." " Team Nuñez, not only are you safe from elimination this week, but you're also calling the shots." "You get to assign the overall style for Team Peck's designs." "Okay, Team Nuñez, take a moment and discuss." "♪" " You guys have any ideas?" " The only thing I'm gonna say, is that too easy, you know, like..." " All right, Team Nuñez, please tell Team Peck what the style is for this Flash Challenge." " A face." " I have no idea how I'm supposed to make a face out of tape." "That's the hardest thing that they could pick for us, and that's how they like to pick." " The winner of the flash challenge will have the power to assign all human canvases in the elimination tattoo." "You will have five hours to create an image using only packing tape." "Your time begins now." "♪" " The packing tape is a perfect test of contrast." "You have a whiteboard, and then you put a piece of tape on there, and it changes the tone slightly, and then you put two, three, four, five layers of tape, and you have all these range of contrasts" "that you can really start to form a structure out of." "If my team can get a quick understanding of how this works, I think they'll put together some really cool ideas." "♪" " I love doing this thing." "I got a strategy planned out for it." "That's how he's gonna do it." " That's smart, Gian." " I'm cutting it in some thin strips, and I'm gonna use that to do my clean outline." " Damn it, Gian." " I'm going traditional with this thing." "You know, tradition... a lot of contrast in traditional." " Aw, Gian, even when you're using tape, your line work is nice." " [laughs]" " Thank you." " Two hours remaining." "Two more hours." "♪" " The closer we get to these last ten spots, the more drama, and Team Peck is completely divided right now." " I think you're the only one that decided to go with a dude." " I need this skull pick so I can tear apart these girls' alliance." "I have to get rid of Ryan and Gia." " Oh, lookie-lookie." " It's happening slowly." "Of all of the skills that I have, creativity and the use of contrast are two of my strongest." "I'm trying to get done as fast as I can so I can have more time for, like, detail [bleep], you know?" "I'm going to give them the most beautiful face that the judges have ever seen." " You have 45 minutes left." "♪" " Whoa." " I like how it [bleep] looks." " You have to see it from the back." " I just said, "[bleep] it, I'm gonna do the whole thing."" " [gasps] I love this." " Dude, I totally [bleep] up, and now..." " Why don't you X-Acto out that on the top?" " It's a smart move for me to be more friendly with Ryan and Gia, because they are really strong artists in this house." "I need to solidify my place in the top and get out of the middle." "Oh, man." " It's pretty cool." " Your lines look pretty sick." " Really?" "It looks cleaner than that?" "I think I went too small." "My plan was to treat this like stencil art and cut out pieces of tape to make the image that I want." "Oh, bitch." "But this tape keeps ripping when I try and take it off the table." "Damn." "If I can't get it onto the plexiglass," "I'm not gonna be able to finish this design." "♪" " Five, four, three, two, one." "That's it." "Time's up." "♪" " Like, what the actual [bleep] is this?" " [laughing] Yeah." " Gian is tricky." "The canvas is transparent, so Gian sketched his entire design out on paper and taped it to the back of the canvas." "He just outsmarted us all." " Are you [bleep] kidding me?" " That is cool, man." " Okay, artists, it is time to critique your work." "Gia, we'll start with you." " You have a lot of rich, dark concentrated areas that really let the light stand out strong." "A lot of good use of contrast, but her looking three quarters and her face at an angle," "I feel like the cross now looks off-center from where her face should be." " Mike." " Mike, I like what you did with the cross-hatching layers." "How it goes from dark to light really shows a nice contrast." " I like the graphic shape of the eyes and the nose and the mouth." "I love the hair." "It really looks like it's going over and under each other." "You definitely hit contrast." " Thank you." " Boneface." " It has a stenciled street art feel." "You have your dark values." "You have your tones, but the real thing that I like about it is actually the straight vertical lines in the face." "This is definitely something you would see painted somewhere." " Boneface's tape art looks like him." "Come on, man." "I know you're lazy, but really?" "This?" " Ryan." " What I really like is the four tones." "You have your dark, your medium, your light, and then your natural tone where the only place that you really let the white peek through were for your forced highlights, and I really love that look." " But also you have some great definitive shapes in here that map out the contour of this face." "Pupils in the center, super dark." "Nice highlights." "Even the little difference of eyelashes underneath the eye." "Great use of contrast." " Matt." " The thing that you lost in this attempt is the finesse." "It looks like the hair is on fire, not just the church." "Capturing the shapes of the face, you didn't really get the interesting contours that a couple of other people got." " I know you're from Salem." "Like, everything you do is the same thing." "You got to break out of the box, brother." " Nate." " I took a way different approach." "Ran out of time." " Yeah, Nate, I think the approach you took with this is counterproductive." "You turned up the contrast so far that it's just stark." " With all the sharp cuts you have everywhere, even the rose, it has such a one-shot feel to it." "It's so perfectly outlined and perfectly solid, and that definitely ate the clock." " I tried." " Gian." " I really love what you did here." "I love the way that you textured the shading, from your darkest in the hair to your middle tone in the headdress." "It's just spot-on." " What you really notice is the intricate design." "Attention to detail is awesome in this piece." " Gian, you magical mother[bleep]." "You've made this thing so clean and so precise." "I have no idea how he did it." " All right, today we're testing contrast." "Team Peck, you guys are up." " Overall I think my team really took a swing at this challenge." " For me, Gian and Ryan are the battle for the top two." " I would have to agree with that." "Ryan was able to achieve a lot of coverage, a lot of different values, with some soft shapes that lent itself to being very feminine." " Her whole piece showed a lot of layering." "She had four basic shades to her entire piece." "Those were the tones throughout the face." "They stayed consistent." "She did some really nice little cutaway highlights." "It sat well." " The impressive thing about what Gian did today is that he produced a legitimate, finished piece of art." "Definitely hit the contrast." "It is solid." "It is done." "It is very well executed." " In this competition, how many profiles have we seen tattooed badly?" " Yeah." " And he was able to achieve that with just the tape." "All right, you guys ready to let them know?" " Yeah." " Let's do it." "♪" "Today, you're being judged on contrast." " This was a good day." "Even the people that didn't get as good a critique, you still put a lot of effort in." "I feel like it's a really strong team effort." " The judges have decided the winner of today's flash challenge... is Gian." " I picked what you did because it had a sticker graphic finish, and as far as cleanliness and contrast, you hit it out of the park." " Congratulations." "You will have the power to assign all human canvases for the elimination tattoo." " I'm super pumped to have this skull pick." "I can't wait to start shooting at people." " Gia and I cannot afford to get the butt end of the stick again this week." "Gian is playing this game for himself." "He's a tricky little gnome." "He's gonna play dirty if that's what it takes." " All of you can head back to the loft." "♪" " I'm gonna stir this pot, is what I'm gonna do." " You have got to be [bleep]." " [bleep]." " Just pick 'em out one by one." " That little dude, he's [bleep] people over." " [groans] [dramatic music]" "♪" " Dude, I'm glad you won that skull pick, man." "If Ryan would've got it, oh, my God." "It would be horrible." " If I can take down one of the girls..." " It's a wrap." " It's just gonna [bleep] them up." " Ryan, something big in color gonna kill her." "Gia's is something that requires precision." "Gonna kill her." " If you get Gia to the bottom, she's gone." "She would completely crumble, and that would be it." " There's gonna be more than one bad skull down there, so you can shoot at quite a few people." " Oh, yeah." "Obviously Mike." " Nah, he's on the girls' team." " He's on the girls' team." " Yeah." " I'm gonna stir this pot, is what I'm gonna do." "Just pick them out one by one." " That's it." " It's over." " It's [bleep] done." "♪" " Team Nuñez, you guys are safe from elimination, but you will act as the jury of peers." "Team Peck, welcome to your next elimination tattoo." "This is your chance to show Oliver that you belong in his top five." "Today, you must tattoo outer space." " Dude." "I'm totally freaking out." "I've never tattooed space before, and there is no beginning or end to space in general, so I don't know how I'm gonna pull this off." " Outer space itself is the ultimate darkness, but objects in space are visible because they're either creating light or reflecting light." "Without contrast between light and dark, your tattoo will be unrecognizable." " Deep space is black, so achieving contrast is really tough." "You need to be really creative, or it's going to be a blobby blur." " These outer space tattoos are always very tricky." "The first thing we don't want to see is a huge block shape of black with little specks here and there." "Just remember contrast." "A little bit of light and a little bit of dark goes a long way." " Let's meet your canvases." "♪" "Gian, you won the flash challenge." "That means that you have the power to assign all the human canvases." "Be strategic." "♪" " What's up, guys?" "I'm excited." "My strategy's simple." "I'm just gonna give the toughest canvases to the strongest artists and solidify my spot in the top five." "What are you looking for?" "Like, a neon-realistic galaxy with planets and a lightning storm." " Realistic planet with a black hole and a alien battlefield." " Alien battlefield." " And where are you gonna get this?" " Rib piece." " Ouch." " Pretty dead-set on that?" " Pretty much." " All right." " Ribs and space, bad combination." " What are you gonna get?" " A neo-traditional full moon in, like, a star base, like, galaxy scene." " I'm looking for a new-school solar system, lower throat, chest." " Lower throat where?" "Like..." " So I can hide it with a dress shirt, just, like, right up around the collar bone here." "I really don't want the chest." "It's a hard place to tattoo." "The skin inflames really, really easy." " I am going to get a Technicolor hyper-realistic space scene, and I want to incorporate three planets that somehow incorporate the names of three very important people to me on there." " Are you [bleep] kidding me?" " How dead-set are you on those things?" " I'm a little specific." " [bleep] this." " I'm gonna give this one to you, buddy." " Gian is a crafty little elf." "I know that he has something up his sleeve." "He is here to play a game, some little puppet master." " All right, canvases, one by one, please read the artist's name on the bottom of your skull." " Gian." " Nate." " Mike." " I got this crazy mother[bleep] who wants a space battle on his side." "This is a nightmare." " Matt." " Ryan." " Wow." " Gian." " I'm so sorry." " Gian is playing it as rough as he possibly can to ensure his spot on the top." " Gia." " I [bleep] knew it." "Of course you would." "You [bleep] boys, man." " You are dead to me." " I know." " Boneface." " Gian's strategy handing out the skull picks is perfect." "I wouldn't have done it any other way." " Team Peck, you'll have six hours to show contrast with an outer space tattoo, and based on your work, one of you will close shop." "Good luck." " Hi, I'm Ryan." "Pleased to meet you." " Pleased to meet you." " 99 out of 100 space tattoos you see look terrible." " Maybe, like, a alien type thing, or..." " Aliens, space ships, shooting stars." " Very hard effect to pull off, and very few people in the tattoo world excel at it." " Ideally in this tattoo, what exactly are you looking for?" " Okay, I want a more realistic scene." " And you wanted to do three planets, right?" " I have three peoples' names..." " Uh-huh." " My two children and my best friend..." " Right." " That I kind of wanted to incorporate into there not, like, obviously." "Kind of atmospherically." "Like, you can hide it in the planet if you want." " I need to secure a spot on the top five of Team Peck." "I have to convince my canvas not to do names." "I never try to convince people out of something that they feel strongly about." " Right." " But in this competition..." " Mm-hmm." " Names send people home." "Like, I might be [bleep]." " Hmm." " So I wanted, like, a whole battlefield, and then with a planet, a black hole or a wormhole, whichever, and then some kind of alien battlefield." " Like, are they battling on a planet?" " No, there's just an outer space..." " Shooting at each other." " Yeah, pretty much." "You know, flying saucers." " Okay." " Pew-pew-pew-pew." " Okay." " Shooting at each other." " You have got to be [bleep] kidding me." "The tattoo that I'm gonna make will probably be around this size, but it will be easy to build off of, 'cause we won't finish if you do your whole ribs." " I think you should be able to." "Totally should be able to." " It's not possible to finish something that size." "If I don't finish this tattoo, I am screwed." "[electronic music]" "♪" " That little dude, he's [bleep] people over." " Are you nervous you might lose one of your girls?" " The [bleep] guys all came together." "The weakest players got the easiest ones." " Why would you want to keep somebody who's gonna beat you out at the game?" " I said that I wanted to keep the strong people here because..." " For what?" " Because..." "Because I want to have a fair win." "I don't want to win because I coasted by, beating the weakest people." " A fair win?" "If you win." " But nobody has that kind of integrity here except the girls." " You are tripping." " You're saying, give the strongest players the easiest [bleep]?" " No." " I'm saying don't give the strongest players the most [bleep] up things." " How's that make you strong, doing a weak tattoo?" " That's what doesn't make any sense." " I can't..." "I can't talk to people who are irrational." "I can't do it." "I..." " [bleep] off." " I can't..." "I can't believe it." "No." " You want to go against the best, but you want the best to have the easiest route to the top?" " I can't talk to [bleep] irrational people." " Me too." "It's [bleep] pissing me off too." " If you're the best, the tougher canvas shouldn't be tough." " "Oh, well, you give"" "the stronger player the hard canvas."" "My boy did it, so he got the Puerto Rican balls." " Yes, he does." " That's what you do." "Got to shake the house." " I love it." " I love it." " That's what I'm saying." " Okay, Team Peck, you guys have six hours to show contrast tattooing outer space, and your time begins... [dramatic music]" "Now." " All right, buddy." " Let's do it." " Let me grab some gloves." "I'll have you stand right here." "♪" " In this elimination tattoo, the artists have to do outer space." "Space is a vast field of darkness, so you have to put planets and stars with a lot of bright light contrast to stand out." " Come towards me as much as you can." "Perfect." " I still have seven people." "I'm trying to get to that top five." "Two more artists got to go home." "[rock music]" "♪" " I'm gonna kick those boys' butts today." " Uh, yeah." " Originally my canvas requested three planets and three names, but I convinced my canvas that we are not doing the names." "Gian, dummy." " We're a match made in heaven, Gian." "Sorry." " He thought he was throwing us under the bus." " No." " Gian thought he was giving me one of the worst canvases, and I turned that [bleep] around." " Ryan's [stoked]." "She talked that lady out of that [bleep]." "Stoked, right?" " Mm-hmm." " I would be." "♪ [tattoo machine buzzing]" " Just a little bit, huh?" " It tickles so good." "Oh, yeah." " This canvas keeps moving around." "He is not sitting very well at all." " [bleep]." " Sorry." " Mike's tuned in to outer space right now with his canvas." "He's a [bleep] weirdo." "[tattoo machine buzzing]" " [groans]" " I think I'm really [bleep]." " Three hours to go." "♪" " Gian's has zero black in there, dude." " Yeah." " It's outer space, bro." " Yep." " My strategy is to just keep winning and solidify my spot in the top five." "My report card is great." "I've been winning tattoo of the day, flash challenges, and I've never been in the bottom." " Two hours to go." " What's your critique once I get all my white in?" " I think if you pull it into, like, a peachy yellow..." " Peachy yellow in there?" " For the highlight?" "Yeah." " I am not that big a fan of Gia's idea." " I think Gia bit off way more than she could chew." " I'm worried about my technical skills in this tattoo, because the chest is a tricky area to tattoo." "You get a lot of inflammation." "The skull picks are definitely screwing me over." " One more hour to go, everybody." "♪" " My canvas, she was really into a lot of the same stuff that I'm into, like horror stuff, but I decide to take a chance and to make this a colorful space piece." "I was trying to make the contrast dark here." " Yeah." "You see these little areas right here with that pink?" " Mm-hmm." " Well, that pink it's not 100% saturated right there." " Okay." "Maybe just do a second pass on that?" " Just make sure you button up all your edges and clean them up." " I want to give the judges what they want and stay in this competition." " I like this." "Turn to the side a little bit for me." "I don't have a clue how to show contrast with this tattoo." "My strategy is to keep it clean, simple, and survive." " That's intense." "I jumped." " I'm from the projects." "I have nine brothers and sisters." "In my household, we were always competing." "We raced home to get the last slice of bread." "Being here is like normal to me, because I'm always around a group of bickering people competing for something." " Five, four, three, two, one." " That is it." "Time's up." "Machines down." "No more ink." " Oh, yeah." "It's great." "I love the planet." "It's perfect." " Yo, that's dope." "The colors are mad bright." "It's awesome, man." " Boneface's tattoo is looking really dull." "I don't see any contrast at all, and it looks like there's a flying meatball across the front of it." "It's a [bleep] tattoo, and he shouldn't be here." "♪" " I don't like this thing at all." " I don't even know if it looks, like, alien." " Doesn't have the polish." " Why the [bleep] would you be in this competition?" " Why do you look 50, and you're 24?" " What?" "[rock music]" "♪" " If there was a day I needed that skull pick, it was today." "The hardest ones I gave to you three." "I [bleep] rocked that [bleep]." " [bleep] you, Gian." " You think there's a possibility that Gia goes home?" " Yeah, definitely a possibility she goes home." " With that crooked-ass line work." " Some of those squares are crooked due to the [bleep] inflammation of the chest." " No one wants to hear that." "This is about the situation that you're in, how you get out of them, and how you execute in them, and you failed every time." " A [bleep] chest piece in six hours is impossible." " How long does it take to do a perfect square?" " How many perfect squares, 40?" " How many did she get wrong, 40?" "All of them [bleep] are crooked." "It's a horrible tattoo, a horrible design, the whole nine." " I would rather have her tattoo than have the one you did." " No [bleep] way." " It was a piece of [bleep] tattoo." " And it still looks better than yours." " Dude, you can be as delusional as you want." " You can too, but my technical application is gonna keep me here longer than you..." " No." " And you're going home today..." " No, it won't." " And I'll still be here." "And I'm gonna chunk the deuces while you walk out." "[dramatic music]" "♪" " Team Peck, today you had to show contrast by tattooing outer space." "Team Nuñez, you will serve as the jury of peers." "Gian, let's start with you." "♪" "I think that this tattoo's great." "Having this figure in the light spacesuit in front of the dark background, there's no better way to show contrast." " One of the things that's troubling with a lot of outer space tattoos is it just ends up with a big areas of black that kind of don't come out that smooth." "You did a very minimal space background." "You still have enough black against the outline of this white suit to give the contrast." "The details, the outlining, and the creases of the suit are very precise." "Nice soft smooth shading in all the wrinkles." "Overall, man, it's super clean." "You definitely hit contrast." " Thanks, guys." " Nate." "♪" " First thing about the astronaut is that he just looks a little deflated." "It doesn't look like there's really somebody in that suit." " Looking for contrast but avoiding black in space, the light source that you put into the suit is really close to the background, so your front shoulder and your hand closest to us in the focal point really blends with the background right behind it." "Going apples to apples with Gian, yours is much simpler." "I think he gets you on his application, his texture, and his contrast." " Matt." "♪" " I don't like this thing at all." "This is just, like, a big, weird-shaped rainbow with black at the bottom." "If you busted the shape up into more of a dotted off pattern that wasn't so stiff and rigid, it wouldn't have that feel." "It doesn't at all feel like a space background." " Overall I think it's a eye-catching design." "Definitely has a lot of contrast in it." "My problem with the tattoo is, this moon is a little wobbly, and I think you definitely overdid the textures in the moon here." "I don't even know if it looks like a moon." " Mike." "♪" "You've hit contrast here." "There is some nice areas of darkness in the space, but you've got circles." "You've got different areas that are geometrically supposed to be parallel and perfect, and they're all a little rough." " That dude was weird." "He just kept sitting up and moving all around, and he wouldn't sit still." " What I don't like is the way you tattooed." "Doesn't have that finished look that I'm used to seeing from you." "It doesn't have the polish." " This is why you don't want to phone those flash challenges in." " No, yeah." " You're gonna get a guy like this if you do." " If I get a skull pick, I'm gonna get him." " Ryan." "♪" " A lot of people hit contrast today, but I really think you hit it the best." "In the top two planets, just the contrast with the light purple, the open highlight, then the black... you really get the idea of contrast to create a shape." " I really like the black that you use, even though the rings get a little wobbly, and I think you have a lot of good tricks." "Looking strong here." " Thank you." " Gia." "Your canvas wanted a new-school design?" " Yes." " How did you guys arrive at this?" " I've never done space before, and so I thought I was doing something that was out of the box." " I like the digital concept." "The tattooing is where it's rough." "A lot of the precision, the really straight, strong, clean outlining that you need to make this design work is what you're missing." " And not only do you have sketchy line work, you actually just see some of the squares aren't squares." "Some of the lines don't line up." "Chests are hard to tattoo, and I lost some of my stencil." " If you can't do a clean tattoo every time, it's gonna hurt you." "♪" " Boneface." "Do you feel that Gian handed you a difficult canvas?" " I don't believe in the whole canvas thing, because it's not an excuse." "You get what you get, so I never bring up canvas." " Give me a calf." " Boneface, for contrast, it's a tough one." "You have all these colors, but it all just looks the same tone." "And this comet, it looks like a melting scoop of peach ice cream smeared across the front of the tattoo." "[laughter]" "Technically, you've got a strong tattoo, but your power is smooth color saturation and application." " I wish your application was on Gia's tattoo." "If it comes down to a technical side, you beat Gia, but artistically you have a lot of holes in the game." " I don't like this tattoo." "I think it looks like there's no color theory at all." "There's no contrast." "There's just chaos." "I don't like it." "Some pretty harsh critiques from Team Nuñez." "How do you respond to these?" " I don't feel any type of way." "It's the game." " All right, Boneface." "Thanks, buddy." " All right." "♪" " Judges, it is time to determine who had the best tattoo of the day." " Gian and Ryan were the shining moments." " I would say that Gian turned in a more technically clean tattoo." "However, Ryan has better examples of contrast." " Yeah, I think Gian's main deal was to do this clean astronaut tattoo and then put a little bit of spacey background on it, but "contrast" being the word of the day, my vote is definitely for Ryan." " Final decision?" " Ryan." " My final decision is for Ryan as well." "The judges have decided the best tattoo of the day goes to Ryan." " Thank you." " Team Nuñez, as the jury of peers, you must now deliberate and put one artist up for elimination." "Team Peck, one of you is about to pack your machines, and all of you can head back to the loft." "♪" " I feel like this:" "don't jump on mine as if it's the worst thing in the world when another one is poorly executed." " Are you talking to me?" " An ugly tattoo is an ugly tattoo." " And a crooked line is a crooked line." " Her squares could be fixed." "Yours is always gonna be ugly." " 'Cause you can't [bleep] draw." " And you can't even execute." " You knew your drawing sucked, and you still tattooed it on that person." " I did exactly what he wanted." " Like, don't you have any integrity?" " He was happy with it." "I'm fine." " It's not about what they're happy with." "It's about what the judges are happy with." " Listen, dude, I'm done with you." " Dude, you've been done." " I'm still here." " For what?" " We'll see." " Why, because you just want to be a [bleep] ass[bleep]." " You're right." " Then why the [bleep] would you be in this competition, Boneface?" " I'm here." " You don't..." " Why do you look 50, and you're 24?" " What?" "What did you say?" "Go [bleep] yourself, you [bleep] piece of [bleep]." "Poor excuse for a tattooer." " We're talking about the integrity of your work." " The only reason that you would say any [bleep] that has nothing to do with tattooing is because you [bleep] small... [all shouting at once]" " You can't tattoo worth [bleep]." "You should just get the [bleep] out." " [laughing] [rock music]" "♪" " All right, we're the jury of peers, and we're here to decide who has the worst tattoo of the day." " Boneface." "This to me does not look like space." " That mother[bleep] should not be tattooing anybody if he continues to tattoo like that." " Hang on a second." "I have [bleep] to say about this tattoo, and I can not get it out." "We can all agree the drawing is [bleep]." " Oh, my God." " But the client approved it." " The client doesn't know what the [bleep] he even... he has no opinion in this matter compared to us." " Let other people talk, Nikki." " Nikki." " All right." "Go ahead." " Shut the [bleep] up and let people talk." " I can't let that skate by." "He didn't even try to put a good drawing on the skin." " But in comparison to Gia's tattoo," "I feel like she missed the mark on basic stuff that shouldn't even be talked about." " I feel the complete opposite." "Can you really put Boneface next to Gia and say that he's a better tattooer?" " I love the idea and the concept of making it look really digital and pixelated, but when you do that, you shouldn't be able to see the lines in your squares, and if you do, they should at least be straight." " But she is an artist, and she can fix her mistakes." " Leaving the personal at home, my first mind is just technical." " It has nothing to do with personal." " For the first thing, it is technical ability, and if Gia's lacking there..." " No." " Then that should be gone." "At this point, none of us should have technical application problems." " But none of us should be bad artists either." "♪" " Today we're testing contrast outer space tattoos." "Team Peck on the line." "How'd they do overall?" " There was a few that fell on the bottom, but I don't think there's any major, major disasters." " And I feel like there was a disaster or two." " Yeah, Boneface definitely had a rough outing, and just the way he did the colors, like, that big swirling pink galaxy with a same-color planet right in front of it?" "This one's crazy." " But really, Matt, you know, you're gonna try to do a moon, it needs to look like the moon." " And it doesn't really look like space to me." " It literally had the shape of Africa's continent, and then inside, it looks like the United States." " But would you say that there is better application here than Gia had in her tattoo?" " Look at these squares at the bottom." " That's where she totally loses it." " Oh, my God, it looks like somebody who just started tattooing doing it." " Some of them are filled in." "Some of them aren't." "Some of them are half filled in." " When that clock gets ticking, she loses her mind." " But this is not gonna get any better in terms of pressure." " If I'm Oliver, I'm trying to think who's gonna benefit me down the road." "You're gonna have a tough time eliminating somebody today." " Gonna be interesting." "Time to get them." "♪" " Is it easier this week than last time?" " [scoffs]" " Way [bleep]." " Ugh." "♪" " All right, jury of peers, which artists are you putting up for elimination?" "♪" " The jury of peers has decided..." "Gia, you have the worst tattoo of the day." " It's okay." " All right." "We'll see Gia, Boneface, and Matt and the jury of peers downstairs." "♪" " Even if we didn't get into that argument," "I still tore his tattoo up and thought it was [bleep]." "♪" " All right, man, let's see what happens." "Let's get it." "Go." "♪" " Today, you tattooed outer space." "Based on your work, one of you will close shop." "Team Nuñez, why did you vote Gia to the bottom?" " Technical application, that was the main reason." "I think it was a cool idea." "She just didn't execute it as well she should have." " Were you guys unanimous on that?" " No." " No." "With Boneface's, it was artistically crippled before it even became a tattoo." " I don't think Boneface should be in this competition at all, especially after today and how he conducted himself as an artist and as a man." " I feel like people are using critiques to hide behind personal issues." "When I was down here earlier, she spoke her piece down here." "Fine, but I'm not gonna allow you to snowball me." "I'm gonna lash back." "Don't make it personal to attack me." " Yours was worse than theirs." "And when I lash back... that's your opinion." "Everybody else voted for her, so obviously it wasn't." " His best tattoos are on par with my worst day." " She hasn't done a clean tattoo since she's been here." " That is not true." " I see both sides of the coin." "I personally like Gia's tattoo." "It's a creative idea, definitely hit contrast, but it's riddled with technical difficulties." " And this is not the first time that she does a rough tattoo." "She did that peacock where she was out of the sides and colored out of the lines and went crazy." "I can't forget that." "And then you have Matt's tattoo." "Haven't even touched on that yet." "It's a circle with a weird shape around it in rainbow colors." " Honestly, I feel like we've all been so distracted with Boneface's and Gia's that I kind of took Matt out of the equation, 'cause I was like, "He's lacking"" "in both departments that they are."" " And I knew you guys didn't want to see any more, like, dark, creepy kind of stuff from me, so I have been trying to push myself to show you guys I can do something different." " This is the toughest room to come in if you're not ready for everything." " Right." " You could be a new-school guy or a Japanese guy or a traditional guy." "That doesn't mean anything." "If we can only see one dimension, then you're not giving us a choice." "Overall, three weird tattoos up here today." "I think that Boneface had the worst drawing on paper, but if you just look at the one single red planet in the center, the roundness of it, the crispness of it, the textures in it," "just that little bit of tattoo in there looks better than the moon in Matt's tattoo." " [exhales]" " All right, who's going home here?" " The tattoo I like the least is Matt's." " Gia, I like where you're coming from creatively, but it looks messy to me." "My vote is for Gia." " Well, for me, I want to see the best tattooer move forward that can have the most to offer in the next challenge." "I feel like Gia's artistic, creative ability could definitely shine in the next challenge." "Boneface, you've done some technical, solid stuff." "Matt, I feel like we've seen a few different things from you, and I don't know what to expect going forward in this competition." " I can definitely do better than what I've showed you so far." " I'm sorry, Matt." "My vote's for you." " The judges have decided." "Matt, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." " Matt, I just don't think you've shown us enough versatility, and it limits what you're able to really produce." " Okay." " All right, Matt." "Please pack your machines and close shop." " Thanks." "I'm bummed out to go home." "I was trying to push myself outside my comfort zone, and instead of doing that, I should've just done my own thing, Then I'd probably still be in the competition." "♪ announcer:" "On the next episode of "Ink Master"..." " Your canvases today... have permanent scars." " That is super scary." "I do not want to be responsible for [bleep] that up." " [groaning]" " We're past the point of having people that don't know how to tattoo at all." " I thought they send ugly tattoos home." " I like it." "No matter what..." " Ugly is ugly." " Don't tell me [bleep]." "You don't know..." " Shh." " Nikki's literally fuming." " This chick's 24 years old, walking around telling us how to tattoo." "I say we steamroll her."