"Male announcer:" "Tonight on "Ink Master:" "Redemption"..." " We have so many canvases that come here into this shop hoping for an amazing tattoo and leave here totally heartbroken." "What happens to them?" "announcer:" "Two artists are back..." " Oh, we're back again." "announcer:" "Looking for redemption." " I really want to prove to everybody that I can do more than just new-school tattoos." " I don't think I ever did a bad tattoo on the show, but who knows." "announcer:" "Stakes are raised as unhappy canvases return, joined by their bitter better halves." " Remember me?" " It's like spaghetti on the hair." "I feel horrible for him because this looks like [bleep]." " This is your husband's skin." "This is your child." " He has buckteeth... just really doesn't resemble him." "announcer:" "When given the power and the choice..." " We don't want another mistake." "announcer:" "Will the canvases' outspoken loved ones give the artist a second shot?" " I already failed them so much last time," "I gotta knock this out of the ballpark." " Not only do I need to make the canvas happy," "I need to make his wife happy too." " That is crazy." "Not what I'm expecting to see out of you." " Not what I'm expecting either." " This time, redemption is much harder to come by." " My name is Jesse Smith." "I'm from Richmond, Virginia." "And I was on season two and season seven of "Ink Master."" "Anytime I get the opportunity to draw something in my style and do what I do, I'm gonna take it." " What are you doing with this guy?" "My biggest threat is Jesse Smith." "He does one style incredibly well." " I'm not typically a new-school guy, but I like what you've done." "Are you gonna do anything else this ride?" " Definitely." " And the person who's gonna cash the check is the person that can do anything that walks into the shop." " We're judging precision." "I don't feel like any of the details in this tattoo are precise." "Just the entire perimeter of the face does not look the same." "You totally [bleep] it up." " Jesse, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." " When I competed, I hadn't prepared myself." "I was so far detached from the world of doing all different styles of tattooing," "I feel like there are some canvases that probably aren't happy with their tattoos because they wanted a specific style and maybe I just didn't do their style correctly." "After season two, I really started trying to better myself in all styles so I wasn't a one-trick pony." " I really love the tattoo and I honestly can't believe that this is the same artist that did black and gray that we saw in season two." " I felt it necessary to prove to you guys that I could do a legitimate portrait." " I completely applaud you for having the balls to come back in here and call this your shot." "Great job." " I feel confident that any canvas who walks through the door, I'll be able to accommodate." "I really want to prove to everybody that I can do more than just new-school tattoos." "If there's a canvas out there that's not happy with the tattoo I did," "I want to make 'em happy." " Ken, welcome back." " Thanks, Dave." " You've brought your wife, Kelly." " Yes." " Hi." " Your artist was Jesse Smith." " Right." " For this elimination tattoo, we're going new-school." " Cartoon of my son playing rock guitar." " I'm getting a underhand pitch in a baseball game." "I mean, I gotta hit this out of the park." "It's a good picture." " I took this the other day, figured it really captured his face." "My only concern is if we can move that ear in a little bit... maybe the teeth, if we could just maybe add teeth back." "All I wanted was something that looked like my son." "I would have been happy, but it doesn't really look like my son." "It looks like a typical Jesse Smith tattoo." "The teeth are very buckteeth." "His ears are very large, which are not characteristics of my son, so I don't even know where he came up with that." " But Jesse is very stylized." "In that new-school world, Jesse Smith is... you know, he's one of the top dudes." "However, that's not what you wanted." " It's not what I wanted and you know..." "I don't know if you remember, but you came walking in the room at one point and said," ""Is your son a leftie?"" " That's right." " Doing a guitar." "I know you're gonna be pretty critical about it." " Is he a left-handed player?" " He could be." " What... no, no, no." "Is he a left-handed kid?" " He's ambidextrous." " Okay..." "lucked out on that." " [laughing]" " If I'm gonna start picking on left or right, if that's a left-handed guitar, all this stuff would be up here 'cause he would have flipped it over." " Gotcha." " You walked out of the room and Jesse turned around, looked at me, and says, "Thanks for covering for me."" "Right." "I hate this freakin' thing." " This looks like some other kid that you don't know who it is." "Are you angry about this?" " I just feel it doesn't portray him for the kid that he is." " Now, Jesse's here in the shop." "You are more than welcome to head in there and talk to him about this." "If you guys can make some peace, we can have Jesse try and draw something up for you and present you with a brand-new tattoo that you approve... totally up to you." "Do you guys want to go meet him?" " Absolutely." " All right, Jesse's in the shop." "Why don't you go see him?" " I can't wait to confront Jesse about my tattoo." "He needs to know there's just way too many things that missed the mark..." "I think my son deserves better." " Ken, what's up, man?" "How's the tattoo holding up?" " I mean, obviously, we're here for a reason." "It just doesn't look like my son." " Bums be out, man." " It's really not my thing." " Okay." " It's a leftie guitarist." " Can't reverse the guitar." " Well, that's just it." "You can't reverse the guitar." "It didn't click for what I wanted." " I just don't think it looks like Sebastian." "I think he has buckteeth." "He looks kinda goofy in it." "His ears look all crazy... just really doesn't resemble him." " My name is Clint Cummings, I'm from Dallas, Texas, and I competed on season two of "Ink Master."" "Pretty damn good at what I do, and I can prove this to you because I am standing up here talking to you while these chumps are sitting down." " I wish that you would have put a little bit more thought in the placement." " Oh, hell, and I don't care if you guys kick my teeth in or not." " Nobody's here to kick anybody's teeth in." " You gotta stop overthinking." "Just maintain your ride." "Don't go crazy." " I think the thing that I regret most from competing on "Ink Master" was that I tried too hard to impress the judges and I didn't really just do what I do best." "I need to prove that I'm a solid tattoo artist." "I did a lot of good tattoos on "Ink Master,"" "but I never walked out of there with something that I felt was an award-winning piece." "I guess I better start unpacking, huh?" "This time around, I know that" "I'm in the right state of mind to do that." "I don't know if somebody's mad because of something I did." "Who knows?" " Bruce, welcome back." " Thank you." " And you've brought along Chrissie, your wife." " Yes." " Bruce, what brings you here?" " The [bleep] tattoo Clint gave me." " For this elimination tattoo, we want you to terrify us with a horror tattoo." "Clint, because you won the flash challenge, you now have the power to assign all the human canvases." " I want to get a big badass vampire." " If I can do a cool vampire girl with maybe her hand in front of her..." " Okay." " Blood, good vampire eyes." "I can guarantee you right now," "I'm gonna [bleep] kill this thing." " What in the world?" " I have very little experience in tattooing gory, nasty things." " So much for that stencil of that hair." " I am very [bleep] worried that I bit off a little more than" "I could chew, with the time restraint and my design." " I feel like you lost it." "What happened to the back of her head?" "Just collapsed in." "There's no ear;" "There's no cheek;" "There's no head." "Her hair would be back here." " Man, this [bleep] thing was hard." " Did you just abandon ship?" " I think for, as limited as the tattoo was," "I did fairly well." " No, but your challenge is texture." "You've got to do the hair." "You've got got to make that hair look feathery and blowing." " Did I drop the ball?" " You didn't do texture." " Now, he selected you as his own canvas, is that correct?" " That is correct." "You know, when I told him a vampire and he chose it," "I just assumed it was something he'd be able to accomplish, but you could see he was doing something he wasn't familiar with." " What did you think of this tattoo when he came home with it?" " I thought her hair looked like she's got spaghetti in her hair." "And she has scales." "Vampires don't have scales." "The hand doesn't look like it's anatomically correct." "You can't tell it's really a vampire." "It's not something you cover unless you're wearing long sleeves." "This is some that everyone's gonna see, and it looks like [bleep]." " Why are you here today?" " To make sure he doesn't get another tattoo like that." " So you don't want to see another one of these things go down?" "So Bruce, Chrissie, Clint is here." "What he doesn't know is that you're here." "Here's what's gonna happen." "What I can offer you is a brand-new tattoo, provided you get along, provided you want to move forward." "And Chrissie is here to make sure this doesn't go south again." " Yeah." " Yes." " You guys willing to do that?" "both:" "Yes." " Why don't you head in the shop and see Clint?" " Clint left me with a really bad tattoo." "He left me with a nightmare." "He should have told me that this was a new style for him." "I don't want to be his guinea pig, and I guess I was." "Remember me?" " Yeah." " From the horror episode?" "This horrible tattoo you gave me there?" "You should know better than to pick a genre you don't know what to do..." "portraits, realism." " I tried to do the best that I could." " I got to live with this forever." " It's not a bad tattoo." " No, it's a bad tattoo." " It's a bad tattoo." "Looks like spaghetti on the hair and what's up with the hand?" "Look at the neck... it's not even, like, anatomically correct." "We have to walk around with that." " I tried to do something that, you know," "I thought was gonna help me win, and under the time restraints and the pressures of the show," "I wasn't able to..." " So you chose something you knew you couldn't do with a time restraint." " Well..." " I'm not a guinea pig." " I tried to do the best that I could." " I gave you my trust the first time around... you screwed me." "I gotta live with this forever." " And I'm really sorry you're unhappy with it." " You gotta give me something more than your word." " All I can say is I'm sorry I disappointed you." "It wasn't my intention." "This tattoo, by far, is one of the ones that I wish I could have a chance to go back and do it again, but we can make this right." "I know that I can take my time and give you an awesome tattoo." " I'm not 100% sold, but I'm here." "I'm gonna see what you have to show me." "I want you to do something that you feel comfortable that you can do." " Obviously, I've grown since the time that I was on the show till now." "I'm really, really confident on what I can, you know, do for you today." " I'd like to stay with the horror theme if I can." " Horror's such a broad genre." " I like the gore..." "little more towards the gore." " I'm thinking maybe, like, you know, some really cool skulls and things of that nature, you know, the whole gory kind of look like that." " That sounds good." " This is a very, very good opportunity to make you happy again." "Give me a little bit of faith here and I'm gonna give you something that you're gonna love." " After seeing this, I'm not confident." " Hey, man, I want you to be happy." "I'm gonna give you a kickass tattoo." "Anything you want, I got you, man." " Maybe if we can come up with another idea." "But you're not doing Jesse Smith." " No Jesse Smith." "You get only what you want." " I've been a paramedic for almost 25 years." "Maybe coming up with some sort of realistic, almost, like, satanic paramedic." " Oh, awesome." " There's certain elements in the tattoo that I really want." "You can put on a uniform if you want, maybe like a pin or something like that?" " What type of uniform is it?" "Is there a specific..." " The dark blue pants, maybe like a lighter blue shirt." "Also, maybe in the backdrop, a helicopter." " A helicopter, okay." " Yeah." "The other thing that I would like to incorporate in it is just a black sheep somewhere in it." "My first real paramedic job..." "we were called the Black Sheep and there's three people that I lost that were major parts of my career that I really would like to incorporate, and I don't know if you just want to do maybe their numbers..." " Ken is definitely overwhelming me with a ton of ideas." "It's a little frustrating trying to remember all these things and how they connect and who does what, but I'm putting my ego aside to do a tattoo that they're happy with." "Then we could have, like, a hand coming up with a syringe..." " Yeah, maybe we'd have, like, shooting out..." " I think the syringe is, like, lime green." " Okay, so we're doing color then?" " I'm not necessarily saying color." " The less color that's in there, the less it'll look like my stuff." " Okay. [all laughing]" " You're making me happy this time, buddy." " Good... you were happy last time." "At least I thought you were." " I was until the adrenaline wore off." " What do you think?" " Really has to prove himself." "We don't want another mistake, another error for life." " And it's on your arm where anyone can see it." "Can't go through it again." " No." " I'm a little nervous to show them this design, because, I mean, I've already failed them so much last time." "I gotta knock this out of the ballpark if I want to have any kind of hope for redemption here." " Clint, come on up." "Were you able to air your grievances, both you guys?" "I know you had some concerns about this." " Hopefully he'll draw something this time that he's more comfortable with." " And if it doesn't look right, I'm not gonna let him get it." " What did you ask Clint for this time?" " More in the horror realm, just to go with the sleeve." " I'm not a super horror guy." "More of a new-school kid." "But I did find a good medium." " Ready to take a look at this design?" " I've been ready, yes." " I tried to draw this so that way, it can incorporate with that." "It's gonna have to sit kinda like this..." " Which way will that image be facing on me?" " Actually, when you're..." "it's gonna be like this." "So this is, like, the front half, that's gonna actually be, like, right here." "And then this, right here..." "this curve right here is actually this back half..." " So when you're done, it's gonna be a full forearm." " Fit the whole forearm." " Gotcha." " Ultimately, it's up to you guys." "Closure for you, redemption for Clint." "What's it gonna be?" " You can pull that off?" " Yes, sir." "You don't leave this place until you're absolutely happy." "Guarantee it." " All right, let's do it." " Yeah?" " Let's do it." " Awesome." " Thank you so much, brother, for the opportunity, man." " No problem." " I'm gonna make you happy." "I promise." " Good luck, guys." "Get to it." " Thank you." " It was very obvious during the consultation they didn't want a Jesse Smith tattoo." "I'm just gonna back it way off, and I'm gonna do the exact opposite." "This is gonna be the ultimate redemption." "Not only do I need to make the canvas happy," "I need to make his wife happy too." " Jesse, come on down." "What was it like seeing this guy come in?" " It was surprising..." "I mean, I was really happy with the tattoo I did on him, and I thought he was happy with it, so when he came in, I was really confused." "I felt like we connected last time, but I mean, you know," "I feel like that with a lot of girls too, and it doesn't work out." " That I relate to. [laughter]" " I was actually pretty impressed that all the people that sees, he remembered my name, so..." " That was pretty special." " That was awesome." " So what did you talk to Jesse about possibly getting?" " Basically me, almost as a demonic paramedic." " Are you ready to take a look at Jesse's design?" " Absolutely." " All right, Jesse." "Let's take a look at this." "That is crazy." "Not what I'm expecting to see out of you, my friend." " Not what I'm expecting either." " Not what I'm expecting to see out of you, my friend." " Not what I'm expecting either." " That is crazy." " He said he didn't want a Jesse Smith tattoo, so I'm trying to give him the exact opposite of what I do." "There is one element that I forgot, and it was the black sheep." "But that's an easy add-in." "No big deal." "With that said, anything you guys want to change, you just let me know-- we'll make it happen." "I do want you walking out of here with a tattoo today, and I'm willing to do whatever I gotta do to make that happen." " All right, do you guys want to go have a chat?" " Yeah, please." "So what was your first thought?" " Wow." " Yeah." "Nowhere near what I thought he was gonna do." "My initial impression is it doesn't really look like a paramedic." "But I love the background." "The helicopters was a beautiful touch." " Yeah." " The New York City background" "What the hell?" "Where the [bleep] did that come from?" " He floored me on it." " All right, but we can't make it so easy on him." "I got to [bleep] with him a little bit." " Yeah." "It's all you." " How did the conversation go?" " Um, I mean, we're really disappointed." "There's a lot of stuff I think-- ah, who am I kidding?" "Man, it's frickin' awesome." "[laughter]" " Look at this guy." " He couldn't even lie." " I couldn't even lie, man." "Dude, this is amazing." "Only thing missing is, to me, it doesn't say "paramedic."" " Right." " So if we can add something on there just to really signify that that is a paramedic..." "You floored us, man." " Awesome." "Thank you." " All right, Jesse, congratulations, dude." "Get to it." " I didn't think you were gonna pull it off." " We've seen Jesse do Jesse for so long that it's almost shocking to see him come up with a design like that." "So it's a great design on paper." "I don't know how it's gonna come out on the skin." " Make sure I spell "paramedic" right." "All right, so check this out." "I ended up putting the black sheep here." " I don't know if it really looks like a sheep, though." " Okay." "[chuckles]" "Well, I-I can-- I can draw a sheep, but, um, you know, do you want it to be, like, a realistic sheep?" " No, as long as it's just a black sheep." " Okay." "What do you think about that one?" " No, no." " Okay." " 'Cause I can't-- it just looks like [bleep]." " Yeah." " You know what?" "Let's just get the tattoo on." "We'll worry about that later." " Okay." "♪" "All right, here we go, bud." "[hard rock music]" " You have such a different attitude now towards things and such a different way about you." "I mean, what made you decide to go home and really study all the different styles?" " My sole purpose was to nix the whole one-trick pony." "I've basically proven that's not the only thing I can do;" "I just choose to do it." "♪" " All right, brother." "You know how this goes." " Yeah, man." "♪" " Were you worried that Bruce and I were gonna say no about the design?" " Yeah." "Actually I was very nervous." "It's very important to me that everybody that I tattoo is happy with what I do, and I'm thankful that you guys are giving me this chance to redeem myself." " I'm just worried, because with the last tattoo, he's covered his arm from other people so they wouldn't see it." " It sucks." "Sucks knowing that I let you guys down like that, and you guys had to pay the price for that." "I'm gonna make damn good and sure that doesn't happen again." "You know, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me, so I'm not gonna fail you." "There's no way." " Hopefully you'll be a man of your word and make this the best tattoo ever." "♪" " All right, how about that?" "♪" " You put googly eyes on it, didn't you?" "[laughter]" "You did." "The shape of it's good..." " Okay, I can" " But no googly eyes." "It's just gonna be black." "♪" " Did I miss anything?" " No, I think you got it all." " Well, then we're done." "Want to check it out, Ken?" "♪" " Holy [bleep]." " Doesn't that look like you?" " That's pretty frickin' wild." "The syringe is perfect, and I love the helicopters." "I think that's a great tribute to the three of them." " The black sheep." " Where's the black-- there it is." "Ha!" "I can't stop staring at it." " I love it." " I don't think we could have asked for anything better." "Dude, you have redemption." "And you have our respect, man." "Thank you." " Thank you, man." "I appreciate it." "Ken is one of many demons from season two that I've carried with me all these years and--and one of the things that's motivated me to be a better artist." "I got my redemption today, and I got one less demon in the closet." " Come on." "Group hug." "[laughter]" " I'm losing all my street cred, man." "[laughter]" "♪" " We're good." "Want to take a look?" " Yeah, definitely." "Oh, wow." " That's cool." " That's the Clint I know." " There you go." "That's what I like to hear." " That's cool." "Its eyes are really, really amazing." " Bruce, Chrissie, Clint, let's bring it down." "♪" "Wow." "It fits in there nice too, man." "It really does scream from across the room." "Are you happy with the tattoo?" "I mean, in fact, it doesn't matter what you think." "Chrissie..." " Yes." "I'm very happy with the tattoo." " Yeah?" " He definitely did an amazing job on Bruce's arm." " What do you think?" " I love it." " A redemption for this guy?" " You got my redemption." " There you go." "There you go." "That's what I love to hear." " Congratulations, man." " Thank you, brother." " No problem." " Thanks, man, for real." " I couldn't be happier because" "I finally got to do something that I'm proud to say that I did, and he loves it;" "Chrissie loves it." "It was a win for Team Clint today." " All right, guys, congratulations, buddy." " Thank you." " Thank you." " Now I can't wait to go out and show this one off." " This is an example of, when Clint does his own thing and he does his style, he knocks it out of the park, man." "That thing is bad-ass." "That guy is super stoked." "I'm happy for Clint." "♪ [rock music]" "♪" " ♪ Original"