"Male announcer:" "This season on "Ink Master,"" "it's Peck versus Nuñez." "On the last episode..." " We got to go against these girls." "They pick one person." "They go after 'em, and they're plucking 'em off." "You got to cut the head off this [bleep]." " It's done." " [groans] announcer:" "In the flash challenge, the guys tried to fight back against the female alliance." " Stay still for me just through this stuff, okay?" "If my canvas taps, I'm gonna be so bummed out, not just for her but for myself." "The girls are getting tighter every day." "We can't let them get too far ahead of themselves." " The winner of today's flash challenge is Nikki." " Thank you." " So what are you gonna do with your skull pick?" " I'm gonna target out the strong people first." " You know, Sketchy's never been down there." "Let him show us what he has." "announcer:" "In the elimination tattoo," "Nikki's plan backfired." " Kelly." " Holy [bleep]." "What is she thinking?" " Did I [bleep] you over?" " Yeah." " Oh, no." " SketchyLawyer." " I think her strategy is stupid." "I would have picked him for myself." " No matter what I try to do to stump the guys, it's not working." " Pleasure, man." " Oh, yeah." "Appreciate it, baby." "announcer:" "In the elimination," "Nikki, Kevin, and Tito were the bottom three." " Kevin." " Why did you stop outlining?" "All that rich black outline that's everywhere in the entire body as a perimeter just stops." "How does that brain process work?" " I tried to, like, simplify as much as I could." " Your tattoo just looks unfinished." " Nikki." " Your limitations of what you thought was crazy held you back." " I was struggling a lot with making sure that it wasn't too wacky and too unrecognizable." " You got lame." " Tito." " It's a monument, and if all you're gonna do to stay in this competition is draw a head, then you wrote your own ticket." " Tito, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." "[dramatic music]" "♪ announcer: 11 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]" "♪" "[dramatic music]" "♪" " A girl needs to go home already." " We got to start going for heavy hitters." "Got to get Ryan Ashley a [bleep] notch on her belt." " Mm-hmm." " We got to get Kelly a notch on her [bleep] belt." "We definitely got to get Gia kicked out of here." " Definitely." " Obviously." "Nikki's already been down there one time, and she gets inside of her head." " That's what sends you home." " We're gonna have to play on that." "I'm the only person with a pair of balls enough to [bleep] stand up to these chicks." "And I'm doing whatever it takes to get this [bleep] done," "I'm tired of the girl-guy thing, man." " You mean the battle of the sexes?" " It's more than just a battle of the sexes." "It's a battle of, "Everybody get the [bleep] out of my way."" "♪" " Welcome." "Each judge set out to find the five strongest artists on their team." "Congratulations, Team Nuñez, you have made the cut." "This week, Team Peck, you're up for elimination, and it's your last chance to prove to Oliver that you deserve to make it to his top five." "This week, we're testing ingenuity." " Ingenuity means being inventive and creative." "If a tattoo doesn't show ingenuity, it's gonna look really boring and stale." " Today, you must create a sculpture made of just one material... metal rods." "[intense rock music]" "Using angle grinders and welders, you must bend and connect metal rods to create a dynamic sculpture out of nothing but lines." "The more limited your medium, the more you need ingenuity to make something extraordinary." " [Bleep]." "Sculpture?" "Scary." "Metal?" "Scary." "Welding?" "Scary." "All the odds are against me right now." " Today, you'll be working in pairs." "Team Nuñez, not only are you safe from elimination this week, you're also calling the shots." "You'll have the power to assign the pairs." "Who these guys can work with will make or break them, so choose wisely." "Go ahead and take a minute to discuss." " We should definitely pair people up there that don't get along, then." " Don't do that." " Let's do that." " Come on, really?" " Put Bone and Gia." " No." "No." " That's what I think, man." " Remember, this is for their top five." "These are the people you're gonna compete against, so laugh, but be serious about who you're gonna pick." " I got this." "I got this." "I'll make it fair." " Okay, Team Nuñez, tell Team Peck what the pairings will be." " First pair's gonna be Gia and Boneface." "[dramatic music]" " This wasn't a team decision." "That's Sketchy's decision." " Oh, he's making his own decision?" " Yeah, he went rogue." " Wow." " That's not what the team came up with." "That's [bleep] up." " So... so what?" " Sketchy is an asshole." "He wants to see Gia and Boneface work together." "It's not happening." " Why?" " Because it's a challenge." "If I... all right, whatever." "Let's do it y'all's way, and then we'll see what happens." " Have you had a chance to reconvene?" " Yes." "Ryan and Gia." "Boneface and Gian." "Nate and Mike." " You guys have to start playing chess and not checkers." "At some point, you're gonna be against those girls." "As soon as that last person leaves, that's not gonna be your crew anymore." " That's not how it's going." " Knock that [bleep] off." "I'd make 'em uncomfortable, but that's you." " The winners in the flash challenge will have the power to assign all human canvases in the elimination tattoo together." "You have five hours to show ingenuity by transforming metal rods into an extraordinary sculpture, and your time begins... now." "♪" " This is really gonna test the artists' ingenuity." "You have to be able to creatively visualize what they're gonna make." " Man, geometry just kicked in." " I want to keep my stronger players on, but I don't think anybody's above dropping the ball at this point." "It's gonna be a whole new game once we get to the top five on each side." "♪" " Still think my idea was the best." " No, I was not about to listen to you in putting him with her just so you can watch them melt down here." " We would've had fun watching." " I'm not sadistic towards somebody that I have an alliance with." " Then [bleep] your alliance." "This [bleep] gonna backfire on you guys." " All right, babe, wish me luck." "[grinder whirring] [rock music]" "♪" " They're not doing a skull, are they?" " Yeah, they're doing, like, a bull skull." " Are they just doing, like, a line drawing?" " No, they're doing, like, [bleep] 3-D, dude." "Now that the guys are dwindling down," "I have to help 'em out, 'cause Ryan and Gia are definitely gonna [bleep] people if they win." " Man, we can make a robot, dude." " A robot, I dig it." " We can make it all square too." " Hell, yeah." " We're doing two roses." " Can I make a suggestion?" "Take the table that you're working off of, make it into a bench." " That's a good idea." " Long as the girls don't win." " So you guys are gonna build onto the table like this?" " Ingenuity, yeah." "And while you're doing that," "I can go ahead and mark the length, the width, and we'll do everything." " Yeah." " Three hours to go." "Three more hours." "[metal sparking]" " So it's gonna take a lot longer than I thought." "Because of my legs, I can't sit on the ground." " Okay, I'm gonna come over and weld too, and we'll do it together." " I'm starting to feel pretty weary in my legs." "I get a buildup of fluids sometimes, which is a byproduct of my cancer treatments, and that pressure is really uncomfortable." "I've had two major surgeries, and I still have repercussions of that every day." "You beat cancer, but you don't ever truly beat it." "[metal sparking] [exclaims]" " Gia is obviously having a really hard time." "If we're gonna win this thing," "I need to get in there." "Hold it from the bottom like that." "[metal sparking]" " Do you want to get the antlers on first?" "Then I'm gonna wrap 'em with the copper." " Yeah." "Using the copper wiring to create another color on our sculpture is the definition of ingenious." "Boys are dumb." " Boys are so dumb." " We're going to fight just as hard or harder than every single man in this house." " What a badass." "That's so tight." " Final hour of welding." "[metal sparking] [grinder whirring]" " I'm a big guy." "Gian is a little guy." "So I'm doing the heavier work, and he's doing the technical work." " What do you think?" "We're gonna show ingenuity by making it look creative and functional at the same time." "I got to win this thing right now and take out one of these girls." "[grinder whirring]" "♪" " Five, four, three, two, one." "That's it." "Time's up." "No more welding." " Robot." "Its arms move." "That's ingenuity, if I ever heard of it." " Yeah, man." "Nobody else's sculpture is gonna move." "That is ingenuity right there." "This is in the bag for us." " Ours doesn't move." " [laughing] Ours doesn't move." "♪" " Okay, first up is Gian and Boneface." " I got to tell you out of the gate, skulls and roses?" "Sick to death of." "However, the idea of taking your artwork, combining it into a chair, shows functionality and usability." " Sketchy told us that he used to do chairs, and just... try to make a bench out of this thing." " Great use of ingenuity." " So you actually got an assist from Team Nuñez?" " Oh, hell, yeah." " The skull is a perfect symmetrical image, right in the center, very legible." "I don't know if it looks like the most comfortable bench in the world, but it stands out strong." " Nate and Mike." " We made a robot, and it moves." " It definitely stands out, exactly what it's supposed to be." "The wrapping you did around the legs, like the springs, or the flex hose kind of look... you would have captured that a little more, if it was more consistent." " I like it, man." "I like the fact that you thought enough to be able to make the arms move." "That shows ingenuity." "I like the concept and the plan." " Thank you." " Thanks." " Ryan and Gia." " We both went for the deer skull, because the challenge was ingenuity." "We wanted to do something that had lots of curvature, which was pretty much the opposite of the materials that we were given." " You've got a lot of details." "You've got the teeth at the bottom." "You've got the shape of the cranium." "You've got different layers of the eye sockets." " But to make use of the material that you were using to weld with in a way that it's not necessarily intended to be used is a great use of ingenuity." "both:" "Thank you." " Today, we're testing ingenuity." "Whittling down to the top five, what'd you think overall of your team?" " Everybody really went forward." "They put a lot of effort into it." " Let's talk about Boneface and Gian." "They've utilized the actual table they were working on as a part of their design." " They make it into the bench." "It serves as art and as functionality." "That overtakes the other projects in the room." " I see what you're saying, and I agree with you on the ingenuity and the functionality." "I think that's really a clever design." "I wonder if it's still not quite as complicated as what Ryan and Gia did." " It's got a great artistic design to it." "Making all those bends look symmetrical, the spherical shape, shows the most ingenuity to put this thing together like that." " Want to let 'em know?" " Yeah." " All right." "Let's do it." "[dramatic music]" "Today, you had to show ingenuity, creating a sculpture out of metal." "The judges have decided that the winners of today's flash challenge are Ryan and Gia." " They got lucky." " Well, ladies, that..." "the reason you won is out of all these pieces, the one that looks like an actual piece of art that someone would purchase and put on display is y'all's, and it definitely shows ingenuity and creativity." " Thank you, Kelly and Nikki." "This lady alliance is much stronger than the teams we're on." "Let's get to the end." " Congratulations." "You'll have the power to assign the human canvases at the elimination tattoo together." " Ryan and Gia are gonna shoot for everyone except Mike with this skull pick, so I have to be extra careful." "There is zero room for error." " All of you can head back to the loft." "♪" " Some of the worst "Ink Master" disasters have happened today." "I just hope y'all don't [bleep] it up." " I got the worst canvas in the room, a sort of tricky tattoo." " This is the first time I'm second-guessing myself." "I picked the worst time to do a [bleep] tattoo." "[intense rock music]" "♪" " [Bleep] that." "I regret not throwing" "Bone and Gia together." "I apologize for reneging on that." " You should have went through with it." "That [bleep] would have been heavy." " Oh, man, that would have been great." " I should have gone with my gut." "I feel like a pussy." " It should have went that way, because now you got two girls paired up against all the guys." "I mean..." " Yep." " Yes." " Nikki and Kelly fought so hard for us." " Mm-hmm." " And I can't believe the boys were like," ""Oh, yeah, yeah, go with it."" " It was awesome." " In this skull pick, we're insuring our place..." " Mm-hmm." " In Peck's top five." " We owe Nikki, and..." " I think we owe..." " She wants Boneface out of here." " Why the [bleep] would you be in this competition?" " Why do you look 50, and you're 24?" " Go [bleep] yourself." " Boneface gets the worst canvas." " Absolutely, hands down." "Boneface needs to get out of here." "♪" " Team Nuñez, you guys are safe from elimination, but you will serve as the jury of peers." "Team Peck, this is your next elimination tattoo, your last chance to prove to Oliver that you belong in his top five." "And 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 is a guest spot at Chris' shop, Hand Crafted, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, or Oliver's shop, Elm Street Tattoo, in Dallas, Texas." "Today, you must transform your canvases' significant other into a pinup." "♪" " I hate this challenge." "Pinups are usually a disastrous day in this competition, and I'm not feeling good about it." " Your canvases have brought along their better half, who they idealize." "So use ingenuity to show the rest of the world how hot they are or how hot they think they are." " Pinups are incredibly easy to screw up, especially if their significant other is in the room looking over your shoulder." "It's unnerving." "It throws you off-balance." " Some of the worst "Ink Master" disasters have happened on pinup day." "I don't want to hear nth critique that," ""Oh, well, they wanted a whole body, and the face is only this big,"" "and "I couldn't do very much."" "That's bull[bleep]." "That is the challenge." "You have to do small details." "This is a big, big elimination today." "This is getting into the final ten, getting to where you're all on one competing field." "I just hope y'all don't [bleep] it up." " Let's meet your canvases." "[dramatic music]" "♪" "Ryan and Gia, you guys won the flash challenge." "As you know, you now have the power to assign the canvases together." "These stakes are high, so be ruthless." " Ready?" " Yeah." " I am so psyched to have control of the game." "We're gonna use this skull pick to get to the top five and put everyone else into the bottom." "What do you want to get?" " I would like a pinup of my wife in a cat outfit." " [gasps]" " Cat outfit?" " That is awesome." " I'm looking for a curvy," "Cuban-style pinup of my wife on the tops of my arms." " It's gonna be difficult to pull off a chubby woman pinup without her looking like a big round ball." " Looking to get a pinup of my wife dressed in a Canadian flag." " I'm the one getting tattooed." " Yeah." " My husband, in a classic muscle car, on my arm." " The worst canvas to get today is the old lady, because older skin is terrible to tattoo." " I would like a military-style pinup of my husband." " I've done a bunch of pinups, just never a male pinup." " [whispering] So, um..." " There are some rough canvases here today, but I am so close to getting on the top five of Team Peck that I can taste it." " I can guarantee you Ryan and Gia are gonna shoot for me and Gian because we're strong players, and Boneface because they do not like him." "This could be a horrible day for the guys." "♪" " Okay, canvases, one by one, please read the artist's name on the bottom of your skull." " Gia." " Mike." " Boneface." "Ryan and Gia are crazy for giving me this guy pinup." " You don't have to worry about body proportions on a guy." "They gave the wrong skulls to the wrong people." " Nate." "♪" " Gian." " Boom." "♪" " Ryan." " All right, Team Peck, you're gonna have six hours to transform your canvas' significant other into a pinup." "Based on your work, one of you will close shop." "Good luck." " Hi, guys." " How's it going?" " Pinups are always a big challenge in this competition." "Now they have to take the canvas' significant other and put their attributes into the pinup." "It's gonna take ingenuity to bring it to life." " What parts of her body do you want to accentuate?" " I know he wants to accentuate the boobs." " Okay." " There's a lot at stake in these tattoos." " How do you want to be?" " Like a World War II propaganda poster." " Well, we're trying to get to that top five, so everybody's gonna have to fight hard today." " So you wanted your husband driving a car in your arm, right?" " Exactly." " This lady's skin is pretty stretched out, and it's gonna be tough to tattoo." "Do you want him to look just like he looks now?" "Do you want him to look..." "when you guys met?" " A little more hair." " [laughing]" " All right." "All right." "I've been top since I've been here." "You can see that there's not too many people left, so I do not want to be in the bottom." "It would suck to make it all this way and not go to the top five." "I feel like I'm so close to making the cut." "I can't mess it up now." " Well, how do we do a male pinup?" " That is a great question." "I've never done a male pinup." "♪" " What style are you thinking about?" " I want the pinup to be a lot fuller figured." " Okay." " Big ass." " Put me in a Cuban-like outfit, or Cuban-colored outfit." " Or like a... just a normal dress with some frilly stuff?" "No." " No." " My canvas' wife doesn't like any of the references that I'm pulling up." "Or something like that?" " No." " She doesn't like the fruit basket hats..." " I hate that headgear, though." " The cigars." "What about a fan?" " I'm not feeling a fan." " I'm stressed." "[dramatic music]" "♪" " And can you let your fingers hang?" "Big smile." " [laughs]" " Gian's gonna [bleep] kill it." "Boneface, I think he's gonna do a good job." "He draws a lot of dudes." " That's why I was just so crushed." "Every guy that he draws" " Looks like..." " Looks exactly like that guy." " [laughing] It looks like him." " You need to talk to your troops." " Oh, I'm gonna tell them that was not very smart, but, I mean, it's too late now." " Now, it's just on him to do an ugly tattoo again." " True." " If they gave him the best skull pick he could get, and he still falls, then he just proved them right." " That is true." " I guess." " All right, Team Peck, this is your last chance to make it into Oliver's top five." "You have six hours to tattoo a pinup." "Your time... starts now." " All right." " Okay." " Yay." " So this week is an important challenge for Team Peck." "♪" "We have six artists left." "We're narrowing it down to the top five, and I really hope to make sure that I'm not eliminating someone who has finale potential." " Are you ready?" " Yep." " Okay." " These artists are really gonna need ingenuity, because each canvas wants their pinup to be of their significant other." "In a pinup tattoo, it's head to toe, which makes the face very small." "So to put the characteristics of the significant other into this thumbnail-sized portrait is gonna be tough." "[tattoo machines buzzing]" "♪" " I like it." "It's just so stiff, though." "What do you think?" " Just something looser." " Like, even just budging the arms to make them look more loose, it's still gonna look the same." "My canvas originally wanted a pinup design of her husband in uniform, standing at attention." "Now, canvas isn't really feeling it." " Would it be too much work for you to have him holding a weapon?" "Is that too much?" " No." "With me starting so late," "I'm hoping someone screws their tattoo up." " Five hours left." "Five more hours." "[tattoo machine buzzing]" " Luckily for me, I don't think Gia has what it takes to do this challenge, 'cause she can't pull a clean line." "♪" " Boneface needs to go." "If he screws up in this challenge, then I'm almost guaranteed a spot in the top five." "♪" "Anything you see?" " This looks a lot smoother than that right there." "That dark purple..." "you're gonna put more dark purple in the glove?" " Yep." " Okay." "Cool." " On it." "I don't have a great report card." "This is totally my make-or-break tattoo, and so I have to nail this." "♪" " Gia is my girl, and I am seriously worried." "Did you see everybody else's?" " Well, I just saw Gia's." "I told her she got the one that I would have wanted." "It was of a cat." " That's the one I wanted too, but Gia has a worse report card than I do, and so I took one for the team." " Mm-hmm." "That's what everybody thought." "♪" " I got the worst canvas in the room." "I got the older couple." "This is a tricky tattoo." "I got to do a car." "I got to do a pinup." "I'm just thinking how I'm gonna make the car look good on her arm." " Look at that." " A little car." "White highlights on the metal?" " I wouldn't." " All right." "Just keep it simple." "I just got married." "My wife, she's actually one of the most supportive people I know." "I wouldn't be here without her, for sure." "You know, they... they've been married for 35 years." " That's a long time." " Yeah, but they got engaged at the third date." " I don't recommend that nowadays." " Oh, I..." " Well, maybe not." " Two hours to go, guys." "Two more hours." "♪" " Well, Nate's is a little debatable." "It's clean, but as far as resemblance?" "I don't know." " Kind of just question the shadow around the face." "For me, it looks like I have a beard." " Oh, no." "Those are just guidelines." "I'm gonna use, like, a little bit of a brown tone." "Nothing will be harsh." " All right." " Nothing that I marked on there is gonna be, like, actually black." "I'm feeling a little nervous right now." "I have the most experience here." "If I don't make the top ten right now, it's gonna look really bad for my career." "♪" " I've never done a pinup quite like this before." "I'm not confident with this design at all." "The whole tattoo is a [bleep] mess." "I don't think I'm showing ingenuity at all." "I picked the worst time to do a [bleep] tattoo." "♪" " 45 minutes remaining, guys." "45 minutes." "♪" " Oh, look at that." " Think I should go high-contrast on it?" " The only, like, harsh black I'd put in the skin tone is... would be in..." "coming out of the creases." " On the really dark areas?" " You know what I mean?" "But..." " Okay." "I don't want to see strong artists getting eliminated." "It's got me rattled." "That arm's, like, disappearing in the mess, and the top and bottom of that arm need to be a lot darker, so that the arm..." "the forefront looks out." "The skin tone you use..." " This color?" " Yeah." "What is this color right here?" " It's the same color." " Exactly the same." " [laughing]" " That is the problem." "I am worried that my best players are gonna just [bleep] up and go home too soon." "♪" " Five, four, three, two, one." "That is it." "Time's up." "Machines down." "No more ink." " Good-looking dude." "I'm really happy with this tattoo." " You're with me forever now." " Ta-da!" " That's awesome." "I love it." " Yay." " That is awesome." " Boneface, it looks amazing." " Boneface's tattoo, once again, is ugly." "It's dark, and it's really not a flattering picture of that guy." "How is this going to pass?" "♪" " Get rid of one of them." " Gia goes down there, she's gone." " That's [bleep] with emotion." " How many of your tattoos have you seen come back ten years later?" "Zero!" " This tattoo's disastrous." "[dramatic music]" " Who do you think has got the worst tattoo, though?" " Well, I know it ain't you, and Ryan Ashley's [bleep] tattoo looked just like the woman." "She's definitely not going down there." " I feel like Gia's going down there." "She had a good canvas." "She had, like, the perfect canvas." " She picked it." " She picked it." " You pick your own canvas and end up at the bottom." " And if Gia goes down there, she's gone." " And one of them leaving will affect them emotionally and will affect some of their performance." " They see that their girl's going home?" "Boom, done." " [bleep] with their emotions." "You got to be like, "Gia's going home today."" " You get rid of one of 'em." "That's the ultimate way to [bleep] with their emotions." " Emotions..." "got to stir up some [bleep]." " Get inside their [bleep] heads." " That's how you get 'em." "♪" " Team Peck, today you had to show ingenuity by transforming your canvas' significant other to a pinup tattoo." "Team Nuñez, you will serve as the jury of peers." "Nate, let's start with you." "♪" " I do think you made a cute drawing, but I think the biggest weakness in this tattoo is on the color saturation side." "There's also areas where your colors up to your line aren't really solid all the way to the line, especially in the headband." "Some of the hair, I know... the deliberate highlights in the hair are there, but there's also areas next to the line where I think you needed to get in those little tiny curls of the hair and put the punch in there." " The front leg is so small in comparison to the ass cheek." " The guy made a point to be like," ""I want this to be a huge ass."" " That's fine, but that front leg would be much bigger." "It looks like two toothpicks holding that thing up, and very strange hand..." "and that little thumb wouldn't even be in that direction." "It'd be down." "You don't hold your hip like that." "It's turned, but it's not turned." " Mike." "It seems to be riddled with anatomical problems." "Your shoulders are not remotely accurate." "This right arm appears to bend in two or three places." "It's a little weird, man." " This is the first tattoo that I second-guessed myself from the very beginning." " The more you look at it, the more the faults start to add up." "The flag is attached to the pole upside down." "The maple leaf is, like, pointing upwards, but yet the flag is coming across, and the top of the flag is actually here." "If you think about that flag being on that pole, then it is mounted upside down." " From the bottom of the flag down, the tattoo looks fine." "The legs are nice." "From that flag up?" "Disastrous." " Ryan." " On a day where we see a lot of ugly representations of the human form, this came out really beautiful." " Your fabric, the layers of garment with the ruffles, looks really good." "You definitely show ingenuity." "The drawing's great." " The part where you really shined here is, you actually did a portrait of the woman's face." "It really looks just like her." "Really over-the-top achievement here." " Thank you." " Gian." " One of the things I liked the most about this entire tattoo is how you dealt with the couple." "It was obvious that you were working hard to give them the best tattoo." "You definitely could have talked him out of the car, but you didn't." "And you gave yourself a tough tattoo to do, and you did it." " And what I think you really captured is how proud this dude is, sitting in front of his baby." "It has soul, and that shows a lot of creativity and a lot of ingenuity." "Man, I love this thing." " Boneface." " This was a tough tattoo, especially with black and gray." "Without being able to achieve a lot of different tones, you had the risk of a lot of things getting lost, and I think that's exactly what happened." " If you look at the hand that's holding underneath the clip of the gun, and then the clip, and then his wrist, and then his arm, and all that stuff right there... it just gets lost." " What you show me in this tattoo is that you do have a lot more technical ability than people think." "You did a ton of nice outlining and a ton of really nice shading." "It's just all the same tone." "So now you just got to make better choices." " Gia." " Overall, I liked this tattoo a lot." "The design of the girl..." "the shape is very nice." "Get right into the fence, you literally just have four broken pieces of wood that are nailed together in a... not in a square." "I know you're going for that look like it's a fence falling apart, but I don't feel like you got that." "Overall, I think it's a great drawing, and I think there's some nice areas to it." "But you know the part" "I don't like about it:" "the skin tone." "I came in." "You had done exactly the thing that is the worst thing to do." "You had packed this person's skin solid with the exact color of their natural skin, which is completely worthless." " You told me that, and I... yeah, you told me that, and I put darker color in, and at that point, the skin was done." " You overworked it." "All you'd need to do was take a brown that's darker than the person's real skin and shadow it, and then where the highlight is is their own skin." "It's simple." "It works great." " I don't think she should have just used brown and whipped it out, 'cause that's kind of more of a traditional tattoo type of method." " Face is this goddamn big." " We're talking about..." " How many [bleep] colors do you want to..." " Her arm and her breasts." " Her arm is this big." "There's a little bit more room..." " And when you're doing an arm that is 1/2 inch wide, you need to go simple." "Obviously." " I hear you." " Nikki, how many of your tattoos have you seen come back ten years later?" " I can't say that..." " Zero!" "So you can disagree all you want..." " I'm talking about..." "that I've seen skin tones done ten years ago." "You don't got to freak out like that just because I disagreed with you." " You're one to say "freak out."" " The more we get to know y'all, the rougher it gets." "♪" " All right, guys, time to discuss who had the best tattoo of the day." " Today, I think thinking out of the box in the ingenuity challenge," "Gian just sends home a really strong tattoo." "It was the perfect design, the perfect application." "Had you of fumbled on that or anything, then immediately I would be with Ryan." " Ryan's ability to capture that face so perfectly in a 1-inch portrait is something that not many people can do." "The thing with Ryan's tattoo is, we expect to see a beautiful female figure on pinup day." "Gian got this challenge that everybody else would have just panicked under the pressure." "But to take that idea and really shine is pretty phenomenal." " My vote's for Gian." " Gian." " Gian." " Judges have decided." "The best tattoo of the day goes to Gian." "You are the first locked in to Oliver's top five." "Congratulations, bud." "Team Peck, one of you is about to pack your machines." " Team Nuñez, as the jury of peers, you must deliberate and put one artist up for elimination." "All of you, head back to the loft." "♪" " Boneface has been here this whole time." "He's a [bleep] tattooer, and he needs to get the [bleep] out of here." " His tattoo kind of sucked." " That looks like a piece of [bleep]." " Your tattoo is an almost perfect tattoo." " You can see what it is." "You can read it." "It's a pinup." "His tattoo," "I can't even see what the [bleep] is going on." " We need to fight." "I don't know what I'd do without you in this competition." "♪ [intense rock music]" "♪" " We're here to decide who's up for elimination." " Who do you want to look at, Mike?" " This has so many problems." " That earring is driving me bananas." " The hand is jacked up." "The hair is defying gravity." " Well, we can definitely say this is in the bottom." " Yeah." " When I look at Boneface's, it's just cluttered and messy inside, cause..." " There's no contrast." "Those things don't even look like hands." "They look like part of his jacket." " Ryan's is very dark too though, and if it didn't have all the white, it would look just like that." " In Ryan's, there's a silhouette that I can recognize." "When I look at Boneface's, you can't discern anything." "There's a missing arm." " There's not a missing arm." " Do you have, like, a favor for him to..." "you want to keep him safe?" " I'm tired of y'all picking on him, honestly." " We're not picking on him." " If you're comparing this to Mike's [bleep] tattoo, there's no comparison." " It's not as clear-cut for me." " Today, we're testing ingenuity with pinup tattoos." "Team Peck, looking for your top five, man." "What do you think?" " After looking at all the details that everybody tattooed," "Mike might be in the bottom." " Definitely." "The anatomy on this thing is crazy." " Her eyes are too far apart." "Her hair is very weird." "It looks like a plastic wig." "Her ear is totally in the wrong place." "The hand that's holding the flag is insane." " Who else is in the bottom?" "Is Boneface in the bottom today?" " The detail on the gun is great, but you can't see it." "It's lost." " But here's the thing:" "This dude tattoos way nicer than Gia." " Gia did, arguably, the cutest girl, but it just looks weird." " There's some definite anatomical issues in this." "That back leg is not much wider than her arm, and the consistency of the line work and the skin tone are really strange." " It just looks like a paper bag or something, but..." " Nate's tattoo is [bleep] too." " But that thing is legible." " But it's legible and put in terribly." " You see in the hair, there's hollowness everywhere." "And just the posture of the body from the butt down, it looks weird." " Jury of peers today." "Team Nuñez, I'm curious to see who they vote to the bottom." " Yeah." " And we have a huge decision to make, and a tough one." " Oh, man." " Well, I'm not gonna even ask you guys how it went." "[dramatic music]" "♪" " All right, jury of peers, who are you sending down for elimination?" " The jury of peers has decided to send Mike down for elimination." " All right." "Let's see Mike," "Nate," "Boneface, and Gia, and the jury of peers downstairs." " I'm sorry, Gia." " All right, let's do it." "♪" " Today, you had to tattoo a pinup." "Team Peck, one of you is about to pack your machines." "Let's hear from the jury of peers." "Team Nuñez, why did you vote Mike to the bottom?" " Pinup has to be anatomically correct, so it's pretty easy and clear-cut to decide." " I'm with these guys." "That thing is so jacked up." "Doesn't look anything like the subject." "Is anatomically all over the place." "Just looks like she was in a blender." " Yeah." " It was out of character for me." " In this competition, these mistakes can really cost." "Nate, the biggest disappointment in this, for me, is these saturation issues that you have." " Man, I totally understand." "I dropped it." " It's a close field between all four of you." "A little bit of a technical slip could slip you right out the door." " Boneface." " Technically, this outline is strong, man." "The details are nice, but you can't see any of it, because you didn't use contrast." "It's camouflage without having a camouflage pattern on it." " But I feel like it's far, far, far from the worst tattoo here, and amongst us all, nobody has done anything overwhelming." "No one is that one tattoo of the day, so I feel like the worst tattoo should go home, and mine is not the worst tattoo." " I've never..." "I've never been down at the bottom yet, though." " All you had with me is contrast." "His is not even anatomically correct." " If you look at my tattoo from farther away, you can tell it's a pinup." " But you're not looking at a pinup from far away." "You're looking at a [bleep]..." " If you look at yours, it's dark." " If that's the best that he can go, like, how much further can he go?" " You haven't done anything yet but make promises on what you can do." " I did." " Well, Gia, once you really get into this, and you start looking at anatomical issues... from the bend of the back of the knee, there's just a soft crescent-moon shape that drops all the way to the ankle." "There is no calf." "There is no distinguishing shape." "If you're gonna do a beautiful pinup, you don't want to give her cankles." " Do you think that this tattoo is not good enough to move me forward?" " That is the question." "The more you look at it, the more problems you find." "There's definite problems with that ankle, or lack thereof an ankle." "Definite problems with the leg that's going up that looks very thin, and up against the other people that are in the bottom, you're the one that's had the most technical flaws throughout this competition." "♪" " Time to determine who is going home." "Chris?" " Gia goes home." " But none of us even considered this for the bottom." " It's baffling that Gia's down here." " Today, I firmly stand on the report card, 'cause she's had the biggest blunder." "That chest in space?" "The peacock?" " I don't think it's fair to regard me based off of two single tattoos." " You needed to not be here today." "That's what you needed." "You needed to sit upstairs." "It's a report card issue." " If I'm the canvas who comes in today," "I show my friends the tattoo that Gia gave me, and I buy a shirt with sleeves long enough to cover up what Mike gave me." "My vote is for Mike to go home." "Oliver, it's for your top five." "After this, ten of the best battling it out." " Out of everything we've seen from all four of these people standing right here, it's hard for me to justify that Mike doesn't earn a spot in that top ten." "It's a tough decision, but... it looks like I got to vote for you, Gia." " The judges have decided." "Gia, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." " I think you are a great artist." "I think you're gonna excel." "I think you're gonna be amazing, even more than you already are." "I just don't think that this competition setting has been the best for you." "The report card does come into factor." " Please pack your machines and close shop." "♪" " I don't feel like I did a bad tattoo." "Boneface has arguably been up and down with me, but I've done better tattoos than him as far as creativity goes." "I feel like I'm being sent home unjustly." "I really do." "announcer:" "On the next episode of "Ink Master"..." " Y'all wanted the [bleep] best." "You're getting the best." " Shut the [bleep] up." " From this point on, no one is safe." " [bleep] yeah." " It's do or die." " Go mano a mano." "Five on five." "Who excels and who fails completely decides who goes home." " This tattoo right now puts you in a very vulnerable spot." " Come here for a sec." "We got to talk to you." "These females, they can knock off some of these dudes easily." " "It's so hard for a girl to be a [bleep] tattooer."" " Are you [bleep] kidding me right now?" " You haven't really shined." " Stop playing the [bleep] vagina card." " No." "♪ [rock music]" "♪"