"Male announcer:" "This season on "Ink Master,"" "it's Peck versus Nuñez." "On the last episode, a massive twist changed the game." " Before you can battle the opposing team, you must first battle your own." " What the [bleep] does that mean?" " Each week, only one team will be up for elimination." "The judges will weed out the weakest until the top ten artists remain." " What?" "This is true insanity." " Oh, yeah." "announcer:" "In the flash challenge, teams fought for the advantage." " The team that wins this flash challenge will be safe from elimination this week." " Careful how over-smooth you get." "If one comes out different from the others, you might be on the chopping block for it as a team." " This is why I hate working in teams." " This is a team move, so you guys all win together." " The winner of the flash challenge is Team Peck." " Yes!" " Everybody on the other team looked at our tattoo, and y'all know we did that [bleep]." " Was our tattoo better than y'all's?" "Just ask... answer the [bleep] question." "Was the tattoo better?" " I think it's [bleep] up when you come in here talking all this [bleep]." "announcer:" "In the elimination tattoo," "Team Nuñez had to battle their own to survive." " We all wanted the stronger artists on our team, but we may have [bleep] ourselves, because now my teammates are my main opponents." "announcer:" "In the elimination, Kevin, Tuff Tito, and Carolyn were the bottom three." " Tito." " This is a really, really rough tattoo to turn in today." " I'm a strong competitor." "I don't think I deserve to go home." " Kevin." " I don't see how anybody is gonna be impressed by this ill-placed square on this guy's chest." " I promise you, I see that." " Carolyn." " This quality does not stand up." "You're on my team." "I want to sugar coat it as much as possible, but it's not possible." " I know you're gonna... about to say my name, but I think you're gonna make a huge goddamn mistake." " The judges have decided." "Carolyn, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." "Please pack your machines and close shop." "announcer: 17 artists remain, fighting for a spot in their team's final five, but only one artist will earn a $100,000 prize and the title of Ink Master." "[rock music]" "♪" " Think Tito's gonna come back?" " I hated his tattoo so much." " Whatever happens, we can't let it break our team." " Hi." " Oh, boy." " They shipped the [bleep] out of me." " Yeah?" " Yeah." " Whoo!" " Oh, [bleep]." "Oh." "There it is." " Oh, come on, man." " We strategically put him in a position where he would fail." " And you failed." " Right." "He failed." " No, you failed." " So we hit our mark, but we still missed." " Good." "You never aim for me." " We wasted our whole strategy." "His line work was crooked." "His snakes didn't look like snakes." " It's bull[bleep], you know?" " Hey, Team Peck, calm down." "What you guys need to worry about is not what happened." "It's about who's gonna go home next week." " I ain't worried about it." "[rock music]" "[dramatic music]" " What the [bleep]?" "Oh, my God." " Are you kidding me?" " Welcome." "Team Nuñez competed in the last elimination tattoo." "So that means this week, Team Peck, you're up for elimination." "Each judge must thin out his group until only the top five artists remain on each team." "The pressure is on." "This week, we're testing... precision." " What?" " Precision means your lines are perfect." "Your color is laid in evenly." "You have tiny, minute details." "If a tattoo artist doesn't have precision, the tattoo comes off as sloppy or even unprofessional." " To handle the pressure of this competition, you must be able to keep your cool." "Corona believes it's important to stay positive and grounded." "Sometimes you have to take a step back and be carefree, and that is called finding your beach." "Today, we've brought the beach here." "Team Nuñez, you're safe from elimination this week, and you are calling the shots." "For this flash challenge, Team Peck must help each of you find your beach... by sculpting it." " Just 'cause I'm from Puerto Rico doesn't mean I like to play with sand." " Really?" "There's a saying, "Never build a house on a sandy foundation."" "Sand is unpredictable." "It could fall apart at any time." "How are we gonna show precision?" " Team Nuñez, it's up to you to decide, as a team, which one of you will be paired up with each artist from Team Peck." "Your beach can be anything that puts you in a laid-back, positive state of mind and helps you find your happy place." "Kelly, you won the last elimination tattoo." "Because there are more artists on Team Peck than Team Nuñez, two artists will sculpt your beach." "Take a moment to talk as a team and decide who is going to be paired up." " We want them to have a hard time with this thing." " Do we want to lob someone an easy ball?" " No." " Someone has to win." " My team today is on a bye week." "They don't have to compete." "Hopefully my team plays smart so that Team Peck's top tattooer doesn't get skull pick." " All right." "Team Nuñez, one by one, please reveal which artist must help you find your beach." "Kelly." " I want to work with Ryan and Matt." "I don't want to see Ryan or Matt fail." "I'm trying to play fair." " I want to take Gian." " Nate." " I'm gonna take Dave." " Boneface." "The last flash challenge, Boneface didn't do [bleep]." " Hey, Boneface, we do need someone to keep time." " I worked." "Now it's your turn." " I'm gonna work with Geary." " I'm gonna take Mike." " I'm gonna work with Gia." "Last week, Gia gave me the worst canvas, but now it's personal." "Gia shoot for me first." "Tuff Tito's shooting back right now." " The winner of the flash challenge will have the power to assign all human canvases in the elimination tattoo." "You have five hours to help Team Nuñez find their beach, and your time begins now." " It's my team's turn to be up for elimination." " How do you want this to go?" " The twist to this challenge is that the opposing team is gonna dictate to my team what it is they have to sculpt." " King Neptune holding a Corona." " Your competitor giving you a challenge... chances are, they're gonna make it tricky." " I love Gothic architecture." " I want two palm tree and a hammock." " Really?" " My beach is a concert setting, watching live music." " More than one, like, person playing an instrument?" " I mean, it's precision, so yeah." " Nikki is playing the game." "There's no way you can build a person with this sand, let alone a person playing a music instrument." " Texas is my beach." "So I was thinking of doing a longhorn skull, cowboy boots, and a rattlesnake." " Ah, really?" "That's a lot of things, man." " You think so?" " This isn't a sandbox or, like, a little sandcastle." "It's four tons of sand." "For a sculpture, that's really difficult." "This is sand." " Well, you're wasting time talking about it." " I really want this skull pick because there's a lot of really great artists on my team, and I want to be able to take someone out." "Ahh!" "Can I get a new shovel?" "Little do they know, I have a bachelor's degree in sculpture, and I'm from Florida." "I find my beach every day." " Three hours, kids..." "three more hours." "[dramatic music]" "♪" " Oh, my God, it's so good." " If I have time, I'll cover the cauldron." " You should carve out a little dome grave." " Okay." "I [bleep] love Kelly right now." "I know she's on Team Nuñez, and we are going to go head-to-head very soon, but I'm really thinking it'll be in all of our benefit for all of the girls to work together." " Oh, my God." "You're so smart." "I [bleep] love you." "[bleep] the rest of these guys." " [chuckles]" " My whole sculpture is literally falling apart." "I don't even think that I can create a palm tree at this point." "Damn you, Tito." "There is nothing left." "This is incredibly upsetting." " Five, four, three, two, one... that is it." "No more sculpting." " Palm trees and hammocks." " Team Nuñez didn't win the first challenge, and so they're just gonna be [bleep] about it and try to give us a really, really rough ride." "They're being super [bleep]." " All right, guys." "Let's get into these critiques." "Mike, John asked you to find his beach." "What was the beach?" " A beautiful woman with toes in the water and beer in the sand." " It's hard to tell if it's supposed to be a mermaid or not." "Her legs just kind of disappear." "Her breasts are basically laying on top of her belly button." " What I will say is, the way that you got the carved-out cheekbone and the eye... that's the shining moment." "It is recognizable." " Nikki, you had Boneface find your beach." "What exactly is your beach?" " At a show, live music, concerts..." " I was gonna do a scene with two guys playing instruments." "Sand said no, so we got a guy playing bongos now." " When I walk up and look at this, I could not come up with any idea of what's going on here." " As far as precision goes..." "not too much in there." " Boneface's sculpture is a joke, and I just want to see him in the bottom and out of here." " Sirvone, what did you ask Gian to do?" " The beach with my dog..." "the whole idea of a mermaid coming up, trying to take the beer." " The waves in the front are the only solid, legible piece." "The mermaid looks more like a weird sea crab." " The head of the dog that I was making fell on my face." " Looks like she's crawling to her death." "Okay, Eric, what did you ask Geary to do here?" " Gothic architecture." " It's a really cool idea, and it's a great use of the natural shape of the block you got." " This is the one that has symmetry to it." "Every side has the same depth, so I think it's a strong take." " Kevin, what did you want Dave to do here?" " I wanted him to give me a couple elements from Texas." " Where I really think you shined in this is the snake." "The detail, the shape of the snake, is awesome." "The flow of the snake going in and out of the design is amazing." " Thank you very much." " Sketchy, what did you ask for here?" " Neptune breaching the water with a Corona." " The anatomy is really spot-on." "Everything's in proportion." " A couple different textures have things what really bring you into the precision element of this." " Particularly the attention to detail... it doesn't have the trident, yet I knew exactly what it was." " Thank you." " Kelly and Matt, what was your beach?" " My beach is back home, in Salem, in the cemeteries, with the witches." " Chose to do a giant witch face and incorporate the graveyard into that on the brim of the hat." " It's definitely a recognizable witch." "You don't have a lot of little details." " The hair on the witch..." "I feel like some more defined lines could've really brought that out a little bit better." " So Kelly..." " Ryan had the same challenge as Matt." " Immediately, the thing that stands out to me is the cat." "The head, the face... everything really came together." " Getting that different clay color gives you an element that nobody else in the room has." "That really helps you stand out." " Gia." " Well, in order to find my beach back home," "I need two palm tree and a hammock." " The whole left side collapsed, so this was done in the last hour." " From across the room, it just looks like nothing." "It's probably one of the weakest in the room." " I didn't give up." "I at least made it to the end." "I did the best that I could." " It's not my beach." "We need to play the game, and we don't care who leaving on the other team." "That's part of the plan." " I'm starting to panic because there's no time to finish the tail." " How long have you guys been at it?" " He needs to speed it up." " You're playing a completely different game, even when we're working in teams." " They're gonna [bleep] you over so quick." " Today, we're testing precision, sculpting out of sand." " You know, we say it all the time, if you're a good artist, you can make art out of anything." "Seeing the people that approached it with energy... like, you look at Dave..." "it shows against the majority of the field." " He went in and outside of the boundaries and added on more sand and just made that snake flow really nice." " Ryan was the only artist today able to achieve different tones." " The details of the cross and the skull on the tombstone, the different colors of clay, gives her an element that nobody else was able to achieve." " Let's talk about Geary, who did the cathedral." " I think he showed precision nicely by the way he carved out the equidistant sides." " And being able to utilize symmetry is, in itself, precision." "We have a decision?" " Let's do it." " Let's do it, man." "All right, guys." "Corona believes that, wherever you are, you can find your beach." "The judges have decided that the winner of today's flash challenge is Dave." " Good job, buddy." " Thanks, guys." " One of the nicest compositions of the day, and just... the details in the snake were over the top, man." "Solid work." "Great job." " That means you'll have the power to assign the human canvases in your first elimination tattoo." " After all his huffing and puffing and throwing [bleep] shovels around, Robinowitz wins the flash challenge." "There's no way of knowing what that dude is thinking." " Head on back to the loft." " I'm really nervous about Dave and the skull pick." "That guy is so unpredictable." " We also don't know who Dave sees as a potential threat." " He's definitely the least I trust on the team." " Nobody's safe." " I think he has some sort of crazy plan." " It dawned on me that, really, it's you against your own team." "So I've decided that I'm basically against my team." " So you're coming to us for advice?" " Right." "You know, certain people talk over me, and that bothers me when people do that, and I feel underestimated, and then other people just have to be talking all the time, and they annoy me." " As long as you have the skull pick, you need to make sure that you get the easiest [bleep] canvas possible." "If you're good enough, that's gonna take you further enough." "Just don't be that asshole, like, because it's gonna come back to you." "If they see you being an asshole, they're gonna [bleep] you over so quick." "[rock music]" "♪" " Team Peck, welcome to your first elimination tattoo." "Team Nuñez, you're safe from elimination and will form the jury of peers." "In the end, only one artist will win $100,000, a feature in "Inked" magazine, and the title of Ink Master." "As for the judges, it's personal, because you're also competing for a guest spot in either Chris's shop or Oliver's." "All right, Team Peck, you ready?" " Yes." " Yeah." " Today you must tattoo a peacock." " Oh." " So many colors and textures to capture... precision is essential, or your peacock will go from bold to blur." " Peacocks are so challenging." "There's thousands of feathers, a million little lines, multiple layers of texture." "You can easily screw up." " Let's meet your canvases." "Dave, you won the flash challenge." "That means you now have the power to assign the canvases." "You are on a team, but this is your chance to stand apart." "Take it." " There's a lot of really great artists on my team, and if I can get any advantage over them," "I have to take it." " I want a hyper-realistic peacock coming down from my chest down to my sleeve arm." " Are you flexible at all?" " The placement's not changing." " My strategy is to take out the stronger artists." "Where do you want to get your peacock?" " Starting at my ribs, going down to my hip." " No." " Okay, and you know that's a big tattoo on your ribs, and..." " I have five kids, so I'm good with pain." " A peacock on your ribs..." "that is a lot of trauma and a lot of pain." "No way in hell am I doing this canvas." " What style do you want to get?" " A realistic peacock with flames and snowflake in the tail and gears in the body." " What?" " Are you maybe open to just getting a peacock?" " Not really." " So far I don't want any of these canvases." "All of these ideas seem absurd, and they're all unwilling to budge." " I want a color-realistic peacock going down my ribcage, and I want the tail to go down my hip on my butt cheek and to the front of my thigh." " What the [bleep]?" " Maybe you should think about going smaller." " If you want to be Ink Master, you got to do it." " Oh." " This girl is [bleep] nuts." "Whoever gets this canvas is screwed." "I got no idea how Dave's gonna use this skull pick." "I just hope he doesn't shoot at me." " Canvases, one by one, please read the artist's name on the bottom of the skull." " Geary." " Boneface." " Ryan." " Are you kidding me?" "Dave [bleep] me right now." " Nate." " Dave." " Gia." " Oh, no." " Dave is clearly threatened by the women in this competition." " You're welcome." " He's not gonna come out on top." " Mike." " Gian." " Matt." " All right, Team Peck." "You will have six hours to tattoo a precise peacock." "Based on your work, one of you will be the first artist on your team to close shop." "Good luck to you." " Mike." " How are you?" " Come over here." " I'm stoked that you're into the color stuff, man." "That's totally what I do." " This is my team's first elimination." " I don't want to go too big." "I don't want to go too small." "I want to make it just right." " You've got the clock ticking." "Somebody's going home." "This is the point when it's time to do a great tattoo." " Something that's really straight, something that's really nice..." " This is the point where the light bulb goes off in everybody's head and they're like, "Oh, [bleep]."" "This competition is a lot harder than I thought it was."" " I'm gonna start looking up some reference really quick, and we're gonna get an idea of what you like, color-wise, style-wise, design-wise." " The colors that I want..." "I want it kind of to be, like, in phoenix colors, like oranges and, like, burnt... you know, burnt oranges and reds and purples and stuff like that." " I am a black-and-gray artist." "Precision in color is not one of my strong points." "We don't want it to look too close to a phoenix." " But I do want the colors, the oranges and the reds and the purples." " You want, like, burnt colors?" " Yes, yes." " Got it." " So you want it starting on the top of your ribs and kind of going down your hip and then a little bit fanning onto the butt?" " Onto the butt..." "like, the tail going onto the butt..." " Right, so kind of..." " And then to the front of the thigh." " So in the time frame that we have, if we start higher up on your ribs, you're only gonna get down to here." " The only thing I really care about is the location and the size and then, like, the color scheme, as well as the realism of the head." " What she's asking for is legitimately, like, a 30-hour tattoo." " I wanted it to kind of go, like, here, and the head go down the body to about here, and then the tail go like that." " I'm screwed." " You gave both of us the hardest pieces to do." " I was put in a [bleep] situation, and I admit that I didn't do that well." " Don't say that you weren't going after stronger artists, because that's not true." " That was [bleep] up." " I think there's a lot of, like, butthurt-ness going on." " I think she got the hardest one." " Nobody's stupid." "Like, we don't... we're not dumb." " Telling me that you don't believe me is insulting." " But you're playing a completely different game, even when we're working in teams, and that makes me completely not trust you, and it's not gonna serve you well, because you are a weaker artist." "So just keep that in mind." " Okay, Team Peck." "You have six hours to tattoo a peacock." "This is your first chance to prove to Oliver that you belong on his team, and your time starts now." " All right, let's go." " Peacocks are very ornate, very detailed creatures." "It's gonna take precision with your line work and precision with your color to really make these tattoos come to life." " Okay." "Ready?" " Let's do this." " So the way it's gonna sit on your body is kind of like this." "That sound good?" " Yep." " I have a canvas nightmare." "She wants a full-body peacock that goes from her ribs down to her knee, and unwilling to budge." "If I make it through this, I'm gonna make Dave eat that skull pick." " Let me know if I just got to cover my cooch a little." " Okay." "Ugh." " Hi, Nikki." "How do you think my skull pick went?" " I was surprised." "I thought it would go another way." " Well, hopefully it works out for me." " What's going on?" " Just kind of started getting into this thing." " That's a big tattoo." " I have to show precision working through a roadmap of stretch marks." "It's hard for me to pull a clean line." " I tried to tell her she's getting tattooed by a legend." "It's amazing." "He can do anything." " I know, believe me." " I'm Nate Beavers." "I'm well-known in the tattoo world." "If I get canned right now, that's gonna look real bad." "My only saving grace is that somebody else is doing something that is worse than what I'm doing right now." " I think it's laid out okay." " It looks like only one of the talons is going over the branch." "What is happening with that?" "These two are just like this on the branch." " Mm-hmm." "All right, think I should redraw it?" " Yeah, I think you should have those other talons going over that." " Cool." "We'll do that." " I don't know what happened with Geary's customer." "He asked for hyper-realism." " My canvas originally wanted a hyper-realistic peacock, but I talked him into doing a traditional tattoo." "I'm still lining it, and it is going slow." " How long have you guys been at it?" " The whole time... they start shaking, man." "I just can't go fast..." " Yeah." " And make clean lines." "Lyme disease definitely makes tattooing a little bit harder for me." " I hope he can finish." " He needs to speed it up." " Three hours to go... three more hours, guys." "[dramatic music]" " Don't move." "Thank you." " Oh, yeah." "That came out pretty [bleep] cool." " I changed the gears, like, 13 times." " Kind of like it's popping open?" " Yeah." "It was hard enough just doing a peacock tattoo, but I have another challenge, which is making my peacock look like a [bleep] robot." "If I made these, like, a little sharper, then I can make them look more metallic." " I dig it, man." " People underestimate me." "Precision is something that I'm pretty strong in." " Oh, yeah." "You're finally getting to work, bud." " I'm the only one here that hasn't tattooed since I was picked on a team, so I need to make my tattoo stand out." "I'm taking a different approach with a zoomed-in view so I can get all of the details in the head and show precision." " Cruising?" " Yeah." "What do you think?" " Smooth, man... smooth, smooth." "Feeling good with time?" " I'm feeling good with time." "My strategy is to stay under the radar, make sure I do clean stuff, and just ride it as long as I can." " With it being precision, you don't want to compromise your ability to get everything super-clean 'cause you're worried about going too big." " And if Olly's giving me advice," "I'm gonna listen to every bit of it." "I want to be the last one standing in this competition." " This is your last hour remaining, guys... one more hour." " I'm definitely gonna run out of time, so I have to shorten it a little bit." "There's no time to finish the tail, so I wipe off 50% of my stencil, freehand some [bleep] on, and start over." "Plan B..." "I'd rather simplify something last-minute than try to rush and half-ass." "Dave gave the only two rib-to-knee tattoos to the only two girls on the team." "I don't know if it's because we're strong players or if it's just because we're girls." " I know it's hard." "Just breathe through it." "You only have, like, two or three more back here." "[dramatic music]" " Five, four, three, two, one... that's it." "Machines down." "Time is up." "No more ink." " Just lay there, okay?" " Okay." " Hey." "Really dig it." " It's not my fault that Gia wasn't able to scale down her tattoo." "It's not my fault that Ryan put a lot of detail in hers." " What do you think?" " So pretty." " Yay." " Oh, my gosh, I love it." " I gave them difficult canvases because I thought they could handle it." " You're not being a team player." " It is what it is." " Really, mother[bleep]?" " Get over it." " I'm on your [bleep] team." " It's precision day." " It is rough." " I freaked out." " It's stiff... very strange." " I'm not delusional." " It sucks." " I'm finished, man." " Guess who's packing?" " Today, you were on Team Nuñez, buddy." " That tattoo was impossible." " I know that it was difficult, but I didn't think it was the most difficult canvas." " Really, mother[bleep]?" " The whole room reacted." " It is what it is." " Just be [bleep] real, man." " You are not owning up to whatever it is that you're doing, and you're not being a team player." " You're saying that I'm playing dirty, that I maliciously gave you guys hard pieces." " We don't care why you gave anyone what canvas." "What we care about is you being dishonest about it." " Look, I thought you were strong enough to do that tattoo without whining about it." "You need to get over it." " I have not been whining about it." "I'm pissed." "You put me in a compromising situation, and I'm on your [bleep] team." " Team Peck, today, you had to show precision by tattooing a peacock." "Team Nuñez, you will serve as the jury of peers." "Our first artist up today is Dave." " The overall feel of this tattoo is a little bit muted." "Very little use of bright color... the color play at the bottom is interesting, but it does come off as a camouflage feel." " Well, in nature, that's what the tails are meant for on a peacock." "The display throws off the predators." "So it has that camouflage look." " It's almost like there are two different thoughts, like a pigeon or a dove sitting on a branch, and the feathers could read like leaves or foliage." "Gian." " You did a really crisp, really clean, really beautiful tattoo." "You made those little puffy areas in the neck, and then when you dropped down to the actual tail feathers, you outlined them the same way." "In a stylized world, it's a much closer take on a peacock feather." "The flower/mandala..." "you executed each little section beautifully." "As far as precision, this is what an outline has to look like." "This is what the color has to look like." "Hopefully some people behind you learn from you." " Nate." " The actual drawing is really stiff." "The area of the back where the tail is, it doesn't have that soft peacock feel." "It has more of a hard wood grain... gives it an acorn feel." " And the way you did those ridges in the body of the peacock gave it that lumpiness." "It's very strange." "This tattoo's not a winner." " Matt." " From a distance, this tattoo has a nice flow to it." "I like the shade, the design." "I like the way it sits on the body." "I like the nice, long, flowing peacock feathers, and it does have this Tin Man kind of feel, riveted together." " My critique's totally different." "I don't like it." "It's precision day, so let's start on the winding key up top." "That key has no precision to it whatsoever." "The two circles don't match." "Then you made all these crazy patterns in the wings." "Nothing about that that needs to be precise is precise." " Ryan." " This tattoo, for me, is a big-time bummer." "Any area that you zoom in on this tattoo, you find problems." "There's areas where your color goes out of the line." "There's areas where things just aren't solid, smooth, and clean." "Today being a precision challenge, this is the worst day for you to do this kind of stuff." " It was just a horrible case of very poor time management." " You being one of the top dogs on your team to doing this... big decline." " Boneface." "You chose to go with more of a zoomed-in view rather than the whole body." " I wanted to do something more dynamic, something bigger that you could recognize from a distance." " The details you get in the beak, the little textures you get in the blue feathers on the crown of the head... it's really nice, man." "You have tricks up your sleeve." "You're able to put in strong color." "You're able to put black where it needs to be to make the other colors vibrant and strong." "I am pleasantly surprised." " Mike." " Overall, this tattoo has a very simplistic feel, but when you go in and look at any close area, like the face, the eyes, the detail of the beak, it's very nice." "Judging all the tattoos in the room, your precision is pretty on-point." " Your tattooing is always clean, always spot-on, and some of the safest in the room." "You're gonna need to loosen up on the safety belt, because when it comes down to it, it's your killer tattoo versus another killer tattoo, but they did a bunch more." "Bigger risk of your stuff..." "guess who's packing." " Geary." " Unfinished, man... you should not have outlined that flame." "You just gave yourself an eyesore that didn't even need to be there." " As I was looking at it, compositionally, it was really bottom-heavy." " It is a pretty stagnant image, and one of the reasons" "I chose you for the team is for your creativity." "This tattoo doesn't show any of that." " Gia." "Your canvas wanted a massive tattoo." " I had a nightmare from the beginning to the end." " This thing is rough." "It is big, but there's certain areas that, in a precision challenge, is hurting you so bad." " Where did you start?" " I started with the head." " That would be the area with the least amount of mistakes, because it's where you started, but there is blue completely outside the lines on the bottom of the chin and the neck." "This entire thing is debatably the worst tattoo of the day." " I cannot imagine having this canvas." " It's a client." "If you want to pay your rent, you tattoo that [bleep] canvas, period." "That's how we live." "It sucks to get a bad one, I get it, but just starting... if there's not that first good pull, that pull was never coming." " I know she's on the opposite team, but I have to say the drawing is more aesthetically pleasing than a lot of other people that did not get reamed as hard." " It all evens out in the wash." "The one that debatably had the nicest composition had debatably the worst possible technical flaws in it." " All right, guys." "Best tattoo of the day?" " Just on technical application, line work, and color, it's Gian all day, period." " Yeah, that's exactly where I'm sitting." " There's no debate about that." " The judges have decided that the best tattoo of the day goes to Gian." "Congratulations, man." " Thanks, guys." " Okay, Team Peck." "One of you is about to pack your machines." "All of you can head back to the loft." " I feel like you guys are the strongest players." " Hopefully the judges give us a little bit of credit because we were dealt the [bleep] canvases, whether Dave is ready to admit it to the world or not." " It's way too early, and I'm not ready to go home." " Even if we're on opposite teams, all of us together are better than any of those dudes." " If either Gia or I go home today, this alliance has to stay." " I don't give a damn about teams when it comes down to this." " I think we could definitely be a force to be reckoned with." " We're here to discuss what artists should be put up for elimination." " We go to Ryan." " Beautiful... oh, my gosh, so beautiful... but no lines." " And the lines that are there are wonky." " Even though it's not finished," "I didn't hate this tattoo." "This isn't in the bottom to me." " This tattoo, there's..." "it could still be more done to it, as where you have Gia's tattoo... she totally went out of the lines with the shader." " And that blob of blue on the ass and the thigh is not fixable to me." "That [bleep] is dark." " Can you guys really [bleep] say that could really be less than Geary's when it comes to quality?" " This is not a good tattoo." "He has problems right out of the gate with the drawing, but unfortunately he put that background in." " That's some first-year tattooer [bleep]." " If I make it to the end and I have to go against Geary, if that's his skill set, I don't want that [bleep] $100,000." " You're full of [bleep]." " How am I full of [bleep]?" " Want the $100,000 if I got to go up against that..." " I would have no dignity in any part of that [bleep] win." "I want a good competition to go against." " All right, guys." "Today, we're testing precision." "Team Peck, you guys are on the line... peacocks." " For me, you know, this new dynamic of having a team, it's hard to give hard critiques to the people you're gonna turn around the next day and try to embrace." "It is a lot harder to kick somebody off your own team." " Who's in the bottom for you today?" " The biggest bummer of the day... you've got Ryan in the bottom." "Tattoo is drastically under-finished, and what is there is weak." " When I look at the face of this thing, it looks semi-realistic." "It looks like a bird." "Tell me what's wrong with it on a precision level." " The areas that are skin tone that have a blackout line around them... those outlines are scratchy and terrible and picked up a thousand places." "Nowhere in there does it look like a solid black outline." " Let's talk about Geary, who was having some trouble." " Grossly under-finished tattoo, the drawing is terrible." "Overall, this is just a bad design." " What Gia did is pretty crazy too." " She just rushed too much to finish too much, and it's just really, really sloppy." " The actual decision-making of where the ink went on the person's body..." " Out of control." " Well, it sounds like we are unified on a decision, correct?" "You want to let 'em know?" " Yeah." " Oh, I'm, like, sick to my stomach." " I don't know." "I thought we were working as a team, but then some people aren't working as a team, and then is it about team values?" "I mean, I have no idea what to expect." " Jury of peers, who are you putting up for elimination?" " All right, we've all decided." "We're gonna put Geary up for elimination." " Judges are gonna see Geary," "Ryan, and Gia." "See y'all and the jury of peers downstairs." " I don't feel safe." "[chuckles] I don't." " I feel the same way." " All right, let's do it." " Team Peck, today you had to tattoo a peacock." "Based on your work, one of you will be the first artist from Team Peck to pack your machines." "Team Nuñez, you guys voted Geary to the bottom." "Why did you guys make that choice?" " We all just agreed that it was poor execution, poor planning from the start." " Well, Geary, of all the shortcomings of this tattoo, the thing that I think is missing the most is your artistic creativity." "It was just a downhill slide for you on this one." " Yeah, it got away from me pretty quickly, I'd say." " Ryan, this is probably my most disappointing tattoo of the day." "The unfinished part is one thing." "The bigger part of the problem is all the inconsistencies in this line work, all the unsaturated areas of color." " I think I got overwhelmed by the amount of color and size." "I just freaked out." " So you agree with being down here?" " Absolutely." "I really mismanaged my time." " You have a very clean, very solid outline." "Trying to haul ass and cut corners when it's under a microscope... that [bleep] don't fly here." " Gia." " There's just so much recklessness going on in the bottom of this tattoo." "How many more canvases do we want to see get tattoos like this?" " I'm not happy with it." "I'm not delusional about how messy it is." " It's precision day, so if you get reckless here and your tattoo's unfinished, that's what will send you home." "Well, I just have a question." "Why do you guys look so terrible?" "What's wrong with you guys?" " In my opinion, some of the best people from the opposite team is down here, and there's people that I don't personally believe should still be safe..." " Such as who?" " I think Dave should be down here, because he's not..." " Dave colored inside the lines." " He did." "He did." "I'm saying..." " That's it." "That's what it takes to not be here." "If you color outside the lines... hi, welcome to the bottom." " Coming down here is a mark." "The further we go down this road, the people who have been in the bottom the most times, that's gonna come up." "If you stay in the competition, don't come back to the bottom for the same mistake, 'cause that's a killer." " All right, judges." "Time to decide who is going home." " At the end of the day, I think the tattoo with the most struggle and just the most troubling one for me would be Geary." " You've struggled a few times, and here you are again in the bottom." "I can't help but vote for Geary." "Chris?" " Geary." " The judges have decided." "Geary, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." " As a creative artist, you've got a lot of people in the room beat." "This setting, you're probably one of the people that's least equipped to operate in this kind of challenge." " Please pack your machines and close shop." " I don't really think I have a disability, necessarily, but I do feel like the physical part was a big factor." "I think mentally it was a bigger factor because" "I was constantly worried about it." "I let it affect my decision-making." "announcer:" "On the next episode of "Ink Master"..." " This week, no one is safe." " Double elimination day... the only word that comes to mind is "[bleep]."" " This is your chance to stay alive." " I think that we can give the boys a run for their money." " Look, my hand is forced, but it's on." " I am on my own, and I am alone." " I feel like you're kind of stabbing me in the back." " They made us [bleep] dogs, and then they dog fight us." " They should be afraid." " These are not the same [bleep] colors." " You made a mess." " I [bleep] up, man." " So it looks like you were in the back of a 4x4, like this, you know, or..." " Oh, it felt that way." " That line work, that's got your name on it." " You're on the same team, but this is the battle brewing."