"Male announcer:" "This season on "Ink Master"" "it's Peck versus Nuñez." "On the last episode..." " You girls are being gunned for." "They're definitely terrified." "announcer:" "A divided Team Peck fought for control in the flash challenge." " I need the skull pick so I can tear apart this girls alliance." " The winner of today's flash challenge is Gian." " I'm gonna stir this pot is what I'm gonna do." "I'm gonna give this one to you, buddy." "Just pick them off one by one." " Ryan." " Wow." "[dramatic music]" "That little dude, he's [bleep] people over." " Are you nervous you might lose one of your girls?" " The weakest players got the easiest ones." " How does that make you strong, doing a [bleep] easy tattoo?" " That doesn't make any sense." "[rock music] announcer:" "In the elimination tattoo," "Gian turned the tables on the girls alliance." " I think Gia bit off way more than she could chew." " I'm not that big a fan of Gia's idea." " With that crooked-ass line work..." " Her squares could be fixed." "Yours is always gonna be ugly." " I'm still here." " Why?" "Because you just want to be a [bleep] asshole." " Why you look 50 and you're 24?" " What?" " [laughs] [dramatic music] announcer:" "In the elimination," "Boneface, Gia, and Matt were the bottom three." " Gia." " It's riddled with technical difficulties." " She hasn't done a clean tattoo since she's been here." " That is not true." " Boneface." " I wish your application was on Gia's tattoo." "You beat Gia, but artistically, you have a lot of holes in the game." " Matt." " I don't even know if it looks like a moon." " It's a circle with a weird shape around it in rainbow colors." " The judges have decided Matt, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." "♪ announcer: 12 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]" "♪" " I am [bleep] here." " You are here." " Thank God." " I was, like, in panic mode." " These two ladies fought hard for me." " We knew they would, but you can't afford to go down there again." " I won't be down there again, I promise." " Man, we got to go against these girls." "They're [bleep] dangerous." " They pick one person, they go after them, and they're plucking them off." "I'm telling you right now, you got to cut the head off this [bleep]." " You guys need to win this next skull pick, man." " Well, Nikki is the first person I'm giving the skull to." " She's gonna get rattled, and she might even quit right there and then." " You get inside some heads, dude." "That'll [bleep] them up." " Exactly." " It's done." "[rock music]" "[intense music]" "♪" " Welcome." "Chris and Oliver are narrowing each of their teams to the five strongest artists." "One more artist from each team will be eliminated before all of you battle each other." "Last week, Team Peck competed, so Team Nuñez, you're up for elimination." "This is your last chance to make it into Chris's top five." "One of you will not be a part of that." "This week we're testing artistry." " Artistry is the creativity that you're able to present in a tattoo." "Without artistry, you're unable to make something awesome." " Right now, more than 16 million Americans suffer from diseases caused by cigarettes." "In the last 50 years, more than 20 million Americans have died from smoking." "Your canvasses today have quit smoking, but they're still paying the price." "They all have permanent scars as a result." "Today you must help your canvasses by making their scars disappear." " Covering scars is really, really hard." "Some scars do not hold any pigment at all, and sometimes it gets raised and puffed up and even more obvious than it was in the first place." " Today's an important day." "These people already have a lot that they're dealing with, and these scars remind them of their health battles in the past, and now it's your chance to turn your drawing skills on and camouflage their scars." " If there's any of y'all that still smoke, today's the day to really reevaluate the rest of your life." " Let's bring out your canvasses." "♪" "All right, Team Peck, not only are you safe from elimination this week, but you're also calling the shots." "You get to assign the canvasses for this flash challenge as a team." "Pick one person to talk to the canvasses on behalf of the team, then discuss your plan." " Yeah." "Go on up, Mike." " How you guys doing?" "What are you doing for you?" " A themed castle tied into the dragon." " Okay." " There is a huge scar going right up the center of this guy's chest." "I do not want that." " Need a color-realism galaxy being poured into a black hole, which will be my stoma." " I hope I do not get the guy with the trach in his neck because that is super scary and I do not want to be responsible for [bleep] that area up." " Tree of Life." "Heavenly black and gray with green leaves." " What was that?" " Tree of Life." " A biomechanical theme on the end of my nub." " Okay." " From probably the kneecap up." " Okay." " This guy doesn't have just one little scar." "The entire surface is one big scar." " We're gonna give these people that they can get 'cause it's a flash challenge, not an elimination challenge." " Okay." " Here you go." " Here you go." " We're totally looking past Team Nuñez's negative attitude and the amount of times they've screwed us over." "This is not the day to do that." " All right, guys, one by one please read the artist's name on the bottom of you skull." " SketchyLawyer." " Kevin." " Eric." " This is gonna be tough." " Tuff Tito." "[- bleep]." " Nikki." " Seriously?" "A castle with a dragon." "That's weird." "Kelly is the one that knows how to do really whimsical, pretty things." "What the hell is going on?" " Kelly." " The winner of this flash challenge will have the power to assign all human canvasses in the elimination tattoo." "You will have six hours to help your canvas by transforming their scar, and your time begins now." " How are you, my man?" " Hey." "Come on over." " How long did you smoke for?" " Since I was 14." " Working on a scar, you can't just draw whatever you normally draw and stick it anywhere." "You have to take into consideration what's already there before you decide." " How long did you smoke for?" " I started out at 13." " Wow." " And I..." "lung cancer was at 39." " How much did you smoke?" "Did you smoke a lot?" " About two packs a day." " That's crazy." " Had to have my lung removed 'cause of it." " Definitely makes me want to just quit this [bleep]." " Heavily scarred skin is unpredictable, so a combination of artistry and experience is gonna win." " We just told him you're one of the top artists here." "You'll do a killer job." " Yeah." " Okay." "We'll leave you to it." "Nikki won't even talk to us." "Like, she's so angry, she's literally fuming." " Nikki's great with the dark, goth-y, cathedral kind of [bleep]." "I thought she'd be happy." " All right." "Let's do it." "[tattoo machine buzzing]" " Last week with my Tree of Life, I think I dodged a bullet." " I would have never expected you to do this solid plaque in a tombstone shape." "Like, if this happened at home in my shop," "I would [bleep] my pants." " How I gonna redeem myself with another Tree of Life over a scar?" "I'm gonna be honest." "I want to give you something more strong, powerful, like a dragon, just an idea." " Let's do it." " We're gonna do a Japanese dragon." "I need to play it safe." " Five more hours." "Five more hours." " I've always wanted something like that on my body, like..." " This is easily one of the most important tattoos" "I've done in my entire career." " It's really just kids get freaked out about it, you know what I mean?" "But if it's a picture, they won't get freaked out about it." " This guy is 21 years old and he has a hole in his throat that children are afraid of." "Here we go." "This is my chance to make it just a little bit better." " Wow." "Everybody's gonna be looking at your neck now." " They're looking at my neck already." " Yeah." "In a good way though now." "[tattoo machines buzzing]" " Yeah." "Yeah." "Scars have major tissue damage, so it's not an easy thing to endure." " Just the pain." " If my canvass taps, I'm gonna be so bummed out not just for her but for myself." "I want to win this challenge." " Stay still for me just through this stuff, okay?" "The girls are getting tighter every day." "We can't let them get too far ahead of themselves." " [groans]" " How you holding up?" " That's a little more sensitive than I figured it would be." " Unfortunately, my canvas has been through so many surgeries, his nerves are all [bleep] up." "One moment he's fine, the next moment..." " [groaning]" " He's in excruciating pain." " [groans]" " I might not be able to finish this tattoo." "We'll get through it, man." " Five, four, three, two, one." "That's it." "Time's up." "Machines down." "No more ink." " Oh, my God." "That's gorgeous." "That is beautiful." " There we are." " That's sweet." " Kelly's throat scar cover-up looks like a space jellyfish." "No way she's gonna win the skull pick today." " Awesome." "I love it." "Thank you." " All right, time to critique your work, and we will start with Kelly." "How was it sitting with Kelly?" " She did a good job." "I'm very happy with it." " I understand not wanting to do a big black hole leading into a dark hole." "That was definitely a smart, sensible play, but when I first look at it, I don't get this immediate sense of space and galaxy." " The way you worked with the skin in that area, you have some amazing color blends, saturated color, and really bright color play, but you don't really get a space feel from a distance when you look at it." " Eric." " You've used his muscle shapes to contour the mechanisms that you put in there." "Definitely shows artistry." " You did some really clean, strong outlining." "Even though it's thin, it works really well with the contrast." "I think you did a great job." " Thank you." " SketchyLawyer." " This tattoo came out super slick." "Runs right up the middle of the scar and the feather texture really hides the scar tissue." "From a distance, the lettering's a little busy." "It's a little bit hard to read, but once you get up on it, it's super tight and technically done." " Kevin." " This tattoo overall looks really smooth." "The nice texture in the fur, and even over top of the heavy scarred areas... you've got the same amount of nice shading over top of the scar versus where the scar wasn't." "It's a quality tattoo." " Thank you." " Tito." " It definitely hid the scar, but as far as the overall shape of the tattoo, the way it fit on the back, it was a very odd placement." " It's really not." "He has a pretty considerable divot in his back, so to place it where it is fit the flow of the back and definitely fit the direction of the scar in my opinion." "It looks pretty good, man." " Nikki." " He had this crazy weird dragon." "You made what he had a lot better, and you got rid of the scar." " The way that you used the scar tissue to play into that rocky texture to camouflage it all and tie it in, really good." " All of the boys in this house are definitely gunning for the girls." "If I don't win the skull pick, I'm completely screwed." " Whoo do you like so far?" " I hate Kevin's." "I really do." "It's exactly what I told him not to do." " I thought they send ugly tattoos home." " You don't like it, so, I mean, don't treat me like I don't understand." "You don't know..." " Crazy as [bleep]." "Shh." "[dramatic music]" " All right, today Team Nuñez has shown us artistry." "You lead the opposing team." "What are your thoughts here for Team Nuñez?" " Nikki really shined today." "The color fading, the way she built off the other tattoo and brought the whole thing together, hid the scar, just killed it." " I really like Eric's." "As far as artistry goes, I think he shows the most because he used the scar tissue, he used the cuts, he used all those shapes." "Was confident in his skill set." " Today he really got a lot of tattooing done in the amount of time." " All right, guys." "Want to let them know?" "both:" "Yeah." " Cool." " All right, guys." "Today you had to use artistry to transform a scar into a work of art." " We look great as a group today." "To give your canvasses something to transform pain into things that they're happy about makes me happy to have you guys repping for us." " Anybody decide to quit smoking today?" " Hell yeah." "I'll never smoke again." " My father would still be alive today if he didn't smoke." "You can't quit soon enough." " The judges have decided that the winner of today's flash challenge is Nikki." " Sweet." "Thank you." " It was super smooth." "You had a lot of obstacles to tie in the old tattoo, and overall it just looks so slick." " Congratulations, Nikki." "You will have the power to assign all human canvasses for the elimination tattoo." " I'm so pissed." "I did a freehand biomechanical tattoo that perfectly covered up my canvas's nub." "I should've won." " You can all head back to the loft." "[intense music]" "♪" " So what are you gonna do with your skull pick?" " I'm gonna target out the strong people first, especially the ones that I know will screw me over if they get a chance." " But you also have to think about who's been down there already and who hasn't been down there." "You know, Sketchy's never been down there." " I'd like to see Sketchy go." " I'd like to see Sketchy down there." " He has been kind of just doing some cheap work." "If you're such a badass, then do badass stuff." " If the challenge today is artistry, it's time for his artistry to be tested." "Let him show us what he has." "[rock music] [dramatic music]" "♪" " Team Peck, you guys are safe from elimination, but you will act as the jury of peers." "Team Nuñez, welcome to your next elimination tattoo." "Chris is narrowing down his team, and this is your last chance to prove that you deserve a spot 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." "And also on the line:" "a guest spot at Chris's shop," "Handcrafted, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, or at Oliver's Shop," "Elm Street Tattoo, in Dallas, Texas." "For this elimination tattoo, you must redesign a famous landmark as a new-school tattoo." " Today's your lucky day." " I am known in the tattoo industry for being one of the people who has built new school to what it is today." "A good new-school tattoo simply cannot be made without good artistry behind it." "It is not easy." " Drawing is essential." "By skewing proportions, you must completely reimagine the familiar landmark as a new-school image." " This is gonna decide who stays in the top five." "Somebody is gonna go home." "Don't plug big eyeballs into it." "Make it so it has a little more flow, a little more style, and at the same time, you know exactly what it is still." " Let's meet your canvasses." "You may recognize one of these canvasses from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers:" "Donovan Smith." " Go long." " I love football." "I'm super stoked that we got an NFL player in the house." " Thanks for joining us, buddy." " My pleasure." " All right, Nikki, you won the flash challenge, so as you know, you have the power to assign the canvasses." " Whatever strategy I did have, I can't even use it now." "I don't know what new school is, so now I don't even know how to look out for myself or how to screw over somebody here." "What are you looking to get?" " A new-school Abraham Lincoln Monument with his quote etched in the background." " What are you looking to get?" " New-school Golden Gate Bridge with a surfer in the water." " What are you looking to get?" " Statue of Liberty with New York kind of graffiti." " One of the biggest characteristics of new school is bright, vibrant, saturated color, and it's hard to do that on a dark canvas." " I'd like to get a new-school Taj Mahal and a crescent moon." " A new-school Colosseum with a gladiator battle scene." " [whistles] [laughter]" " I definitely do not want the Roman Colosseum because there's a lot of work involved." "Whoever gets this canvas is [bleep]." " This is gonna be hard." " Watching Nikki do the skull pick is like watching a train wreck." "She looks completely confused." " Sorry, I take forever." "I forgot to ask where you guys want this." "How did I forget that?" "It's too much thinking." " Okay, canvasses, one by one, go ahead and read the artist's name on the bottom of your skull." " Nikki." " Kevin." " SketchyLawyer." " If she's trying to gun for me thinking that I can't do a new-school tattoo on a darker canvas, she's crazy." " Kelly." " Holy [bleep]." "Nikki just gave Kelly the worst possible canvas." "What is she thinking?" " Tuff Tito." " Eric." " Team Nuñez, you will have six hours to tattoo a famous landmark new-school style." "Based on your work, one of you will close shop." "Good luck." " Hello." " Good to meet you, man." " Today we're doing new-school landmarks." " So Taj Mahal." " Statue of Liberty." " Artistry is important because they're gonna have to really come up with a design that is uniquely theirs." "If you can't draw on this tattoo, you're definitely gonna have a hard time." " New-school [bleep] is what I do, man." " For real?" " You wanted the Colosseum." " I was looking for, like, a action or a battle scene." "Maybe a lion and a gladiator, or the lion's down, head off." "Glowing for any blood that's down there." " Oh, my God." "My canvas wants everything but the kitchen sink in his tattoo." " I don't know how much I like his head being overly sized." "Can the body be kind of, like, proportionate?" " He doesn't want new school on new-school day." "I got the hardest canvas of the day." "Thanks, Nikki." "[dramatic music]" "♪" " What do you think?" " Super cool." "I'm super stoked." "I would've picked him for myself." "I was like, "Dude, what is Nikki doing now?" ""She's just, like, totally hooking me up." Like..." " Well, I thought yours was gonna be really hard with his dark complexion." " Ooh." " And even if you do do a good job, it won't look as good compared to others." " Right." " No matter what I try to do to stump the guys, it's not working." " Honestly, my guy wants no exaggeration." "He wants it full color with the Colosseum with a gladiator fighting a lion with a glowing sword." " Did I [bleep] you over?" " Um..." " Do you think you can do this?" " Um..." "I have to." "If I can't do it, then I deserve to go home." " Oh, no." " All right, Team Nuñez, this is your last chance to make it into Chris's top five." "You will all have six hours to tattoo a new-school landmark." "And your time starts now." " All right." " Go ahead and put the stencil on you now." " If you can't draw on this tattoo, you're definitely gonna have a hard time." " The buildings, I'm gonna make them just really contorted." " This now is crunch time for both teams." "I think Ollie and I are in a dead heat." "I don't think anybody's really running off with this thing yet." "I just want to get to five, and then I'm gonna show him what's up." " Instead of doing this top part," "I'm gonna just make that the top of the torch and bring it, like, behind there." " So it fits?" " Yeah." "Is that a good call?" " Yeah." "For me as a captain, if my team is supposed to be the strongest and best it can be, then I'm happy to get rid of the weak ones." " I wanted to make his head abnormally large, but is his body small enough?" " The traditional new school, it wasn't just, like, big eyes and stretchy hands." "You can do it any way you want." " I usually go into every tattoo super confident, but now I'm really unsure of every move that I'm making." " Nikki gives me the Golden Gate Bridge with a surfer." "I don't know how I'm about to do this design." "I am in a complete different realm." "Just the wave's coming up here." " You have a... you have a way to pull something up real quick?" " Yeah." "Chris gives me a lot of different references for water, which is more Japanese style, more of his style." " That's what I want you to work on." " The waves?" "It scares me to go into that knowing that I feel like I'd be critiqued even harder if I try to do something that he's proficient in." "I'll take a little bit of his advice, but I definitely don't want to OD." " Five more hours." " I'm not a fast tattooer." "I'm still trying to adapt to this competition." "I need to speed things up." "Every which way I'm stretching this girl's skin," "I can't do a straight line to save my [bleep] life." " What up, E?" " What up, man?" " What happened?" "Are you having problems?" " Switched out, like, three machines already." "I might not be able to finish this tattoo." " Two more hours to go." " I was a little nervous at first 'cause I saw one of the new-school tattoos." "I don't know, like, there was, like, makeup on it." " I have, like, a style that I do for, like, feminine new school, and then I have a style that I do for, like, masculine new school." "It's just a little bit bolder." "My canvas is a little nervous about my design, but he's going with it." "The pressure for me to do a really, really good job on new-school day is absolutely astronomical." " Kelly's is awesome." "It's not even finished yet and it already looks like the Colosseum, and it's new-school, and it's everything the guy wanted." " This is your final hour." " I'm worried if I go to the panel today, my report card can't help me too much." "I got to prove that I can be in the top ten." " My man Tito's in deep [bleep]." " Yeah, you're not looking good right now." " That mouth." " Drawing is key today." " It's like she just sucked on a lemon." " Who do you like so far?" " I like Kevin's." " I hate Kevin's." "I hate it." "I hate that water." "It's exactly what I told him not to do." " Babe-raham Lincoln over here is a little weird too." " Looks more like you." " It doesn't, like, have that harsh forced perspective that we would have with a bobble head with tiny feet and a big head." " I don't know." " Five, four, three, two, one." "That is it." "Time's up." "Machines down." "No more ink." " This gonna look good on the field, man." " Pleasure, man." " Hell yeah." "Appreciate it, baby." " I don't even know if Tuff Tito has seen the Statue of Liberty because his is a really weird, ugly version." "She has one eye that's really huge and one eye that's not." "That's not new school." "That's just not knowing how to proportion a face." " Appreciate it." " Thank you for working on me." " Nikki's got a [bleep] motormouth and don't know when to shut up." " Yeah." " I say steamroll her." " Why did you abandon all the good [bleep] I showed you?" " I don't know this style very well." " You got lame." " I don't see how you're gonna go any further anyway." "[dramatic music[" " I think that Tito and Nikki are competing to who's going home." " No offense, Tito, but mine was not an ugly tattoo." " I like my tattoo." " It doesn't have a pretty face." " It don't mean to have a pretty face." "He don't want to have a pretty face." " I thought they send ugly tattoos home." " Hey, it's all good." "I'm staying in for my Statue of Liberty." " How can you really stand by ugly tattoos?" " My canvas was happy with it, and he like it." "I like it." " Ugly is ugly and good-looking is good-looking." " Don't tell me [bleep]." "I hit the challenge, you know what I mean?" "Psh." "The tattoo was good." " If I go home before you..." " You don't like it, so, I mean, don't treat me like..." " Crazy as [bleep]." "Shh." "[dramatic music]" "♪ [intense music]" "♪" " Team Nuñez, today you had to show artistry by transforming a famous landmark into a new-school tattoo." "Eric, let's start with you." " Overall, your background and the way you played the negative into it works really well for your design." "You have some really nice line work, some nice areas here." "You have a lot of small, thin parallel lines." " I love the juxtaposition of these really bright colors and the primarily black-and-gray structure, gives this building some life." "One of the things about an inanimate landmark new-school is to make it become a character, and I think that you hit that." "Kevin." " The water, it's such a harsh just unfluid, unliquid, unflattering beginning to this tattoo." "Why did you abandon all the good [bleep] I showed you?" " A lot of the waves were, like, super, super detailed, and I didn't know how that would look up against, like, a super simple drawing." " So [bleep] the reference." "Why did you stop outlining?" "All that rich, black outline that's everywhere in the entire body as a perimeter just stops, and then everything behind him is not outlined." "How does that brain process work?" " 'Cause I wanted the wave and the back of the surfboard and the bridge to all be inferred as the background," "I abandoned the outline." " Your tattoo just looks unfinished." "I'm not at all mad about the artistry in this." "It was the follow-through in the tattooing and the finished look of the tattoo." " Kelly." " Testing artistry today, this is where you really shine." "This is a great drawing, great illustration." "The details are spot-on." "The way you executed the Colosseum is brilliant." " I did morph it a little bit, but I wanted to keep it somewhat true to form and then use other elements to bring in a more new-school-y kind of feel." " The artistry stands strong." "The way that the character fades off before it hits the Colosseum and that color blast comes out is a great use of contrast." "The details in the musculature of the guy and the skin tone, to scratches in his face, it's great tattooing." " SketchyLawyer." " Having to go black and gray color is not really that big of a a deficit." "Using your own artistry to really create a dynamic image, that is the area in this challenge where you excelled." "But what's up with her eyes?" " They were just kind of ghosty." "And I didn't really put pupils in there." "I shaded off the top and then just put some white highlights in it." " You got this jawline of a beautiful girl and flowing hair, and then you got these just weird eyes that are on the different plane." "Pretty out of whack." "How do you feel about the white in there?" " I don't like the white at all." " But I think it looks nice in the nose and the lip." " In football practice, he's beating the [bleep] out of that thing." "And looking at who he is and he's like this every day... down, set, hike... with the sun beating the [bleep] out of it, that's a wrap." " Nikki." " It's questionable whether people are gonna recognize this as the Lincoln Memorial." "You got to force that perspective all the way down so you could show both hands, maybe show more of the memorial." "The feet should be this big and the head should be this big." "That's, like, a hard-forced perspective." " My handicap in this is I've been tattooing for five years." "I don't know this style very well." " I really dislike the shape of the background." "This hard-shaped patch looks super off." "I hate the cupcake-frosting hair all the way around the face." "What happened?" " I was struggling a lot with making sure that it wasn't too wacky, too unrecognizable." " Your limitations of what you thought was crazy held you back." "You got lame." " Tito." " Testing artistry," "I have a multitude of problems with this drawing." "The mouth is completely jacked." "It's out of shape." "Statue of Liberty, seven points on her crown." "You have six." "And that last point on the other side of the head, there's no way that point is connected to that crown in the direction that crown is turning." " New school." "You bend it." " Just because it's new school doesn't mean it's ugly." "It's weird choices." "This is where your artistry is falling short." "You should've just looked at the Statue of Liberty and drawn your own version." " All right, guys, time to determine who had the best tattoo of the day." " Eric and Kelly." " I agree." "Those are my top two." " Kelly definitely hit new school stronger than Eric, but if you just compare the quality and the detail in Kelly's Colosseum to the Taj Mahal, really over the top." " Eric definitely put his balls on the chopping block and did a [bleep] load of tiny little straight lines side by side by side by side and just owned it." " We're talking about artistry." "Kelly had the foresight to plan alcoves and little windows lined in red because this thing is gonna be glowing from the inside." " Oh, I mean, just the drawing itself." "I mean, she drew that figure from scratch." "I think that the artistry shows really, really strong." "My vote's for Kelly." " I'm going with Eric." " I'm going for Kelly." "The judges have decided that the best tattoo of the day goes to Kelly." "Well done." " Thank you." " All right, Team Nuñez, one of you is about to pack your machines, and all of you can head up to the loft." " What the [bleep]'s going on?" "Like, are you going home over this bull[bleep]?" " See what they say." "They have the last word." " Tito." " You know what I mean?" " I just don't want to see you go out, like, whatever." " Me whatever?" "No, bro." "I'll never quit." "I'm gonna stand for what I do." " You go down there, Kevin goes down there, make it be not about Kevin and Tito." "Make it be about Nikki." " She gonna start, like, going crazy down there." " Hey, dude." "This chick's 24 years old walking around telling us how to tattoo." "Who the [bleep] is that, dude?" "She's got a [bleep] motormouth and don't know when to shut up." " Yeah." " I say steamroll her." " If I go downstairs, which it look like I will," "I'm ready, bro." "I'm good." "I like challenges, and I don't think being here is a harder situation than I have in my life." "I'm a [bleep] warrior." "I don't quit." "I don't quit anything." "I'll fight until I die." "[intense music]" " Okay, we're here to determine who has the worst tattoo of the day and who we're putting up for elimination." " I got to say Kevin." "The wave is ugly." " There's mistakes that he claims he put in there on purpose, but it makes no sense." "Like, you wouldn't have a black line just stopping, and then start of no line." "That is whack." "But, I mean, it's still not as bad as Tito's." "It looks like a floating head." " Those lines on top [bleep] kill it." "Four not filled in teal lines on the skin." " You know what though?" "It does look like the Statue of Liberty compared to Nikki's tattoo." "This doesn't look like the Lincoln Monument." " And that hand, it looks like a little ornamental piece on a colonel's suit." "I don't think it meets the landmark challenge at all." "both:" "The challenge was artistry." " But we have to be genuine about who we think genuinely had the worst tattoo." " Yeah, yeah." " It's not about who we want to go down to the bottom." " It seems like you don't agree that this is the worst tattoo." " Nikki missed the mark on this one, but at least she drew this tattoo... she designed it." "Tito did not." " This one is definitely neck-and-neck with Tito's." " So Team Nuñez narrowing it down to the top five artists." "And we're testing artistry with new-school landmarks." "Let's start with Kevin." "I actually like this tattoo." "Chris, you don't seem as happy about it." " It takes artistry to be able to understand how water moves, what water should look like." "Kevin just doesn't listen, and I'm just frustrated because I'm telling you and you still don't want to do it?" "And you want to make this bull[bleep]?" "Get out of here." " Who's in your bottom, Oliver?" " Definitely Tito." "Call it new school, say you can twist it and warp it, that doesn't mean make it ugly." " I think he went as safe as he could and in his mind thought," ""This is gonna be good enough for me to beat one other person."" "I mean, he just did a floating head." "You are fighting for your life." " I got to say, my vote is Nikki." "She didn't show the monument." "The artistry is lacking there." " And she's very confident in her skill set and she's cocky, and she needs to be working harder than this to keep running that mouth." " Jury of peers is gonna vote someone to the bottom." "It's gonna be interesting, man." "Top five." "You ready?" " I am." " You ready?" "All right." " It was kind of tough." "We had to discuss them all." " You really had to discuss them all?" " Yeah." " Well, we were not unified." " Jury of peers, who are you putting down for elimination?" " We have decided to put Tuff Tito up for elimination." " All right." "We'll see Tito, Kevin, and Nikki, and the jury of peers downstairs." " How you feel, buddy?" " I'm feeling good." "I will be back here." "AGuarantee you that." "Let's go, guys." "♪" " Today you had to tattoo a landmark new-school style, and based on your work, one of you will close shop." "Time to hear from the jury of peers." "Team Peck, why did you vote Tito to the bottom?" " There was just so many things wrong with it." "The hairline, the eyes, the eyebrows." "He was thinking just 'cause it's new school he could just do whatever with it, but it still has to look good." " But does it look like the Statue of Liberty?" "All day." " Tito, where did you even try in the drawing process?" " Excuse me." "I'm talking to him." " The biggest letdown of this whole thing is just doing a floating head." "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." " You know I got the fundamentals." "Some other people, they can't pull straight lines when they want." " Well, who are you talking about specifically?" " Kevin's tattoo." " You can zoom into any part of that tattoo, and I guarantee you every line in that tattoo is straighter than every line in yours." " So, yes, this tattoo does display fundamentals." "There are some great details, but overall, it has an unfinished feel to it." " The fact that you did the foreground of your tattoo with a big, heavy line and then just fuzzed it out is so questionable, man." " Out of today's challenge, of all the tattoos, mine was definitely one of the ones that hit all aspects." "You definitely see that that's the Golden Gate Bridge behind him." "You definitely see that's a surfer." "I made it new-school." " But I thought the challenge was a new-school landmark, and when I look at that tattoo, I see a realistic landmark." " The main part of the tattoo is the man in front." " I thought it's the landmark though." " But then if that's the case, then who's to say that yours hit the challenge at all then?" " The keyword today was a landmark, Nikki, so you needed to show more of the image." " I think it's not being completely knowledgeable of what new school is." " It's just that we don't..." " And I just didn't put his whole body in there." " We don't know that this is the memorial." "That's the main issue." "Judges, time to determine who's going home." "Kevin, I do see artistry in the fact that you came up with something creatively and made your landmark and made your little dude, and he's new-school." "I see that as hitting the challenge." "Nikki, I don't see the monument." "As far as I'm concerned, Kevin is safe and it's between Nikki and Tito." " I kind of feel that it's Nikki safe and it's between Tito and Kevin." " Well, this is your team." "Who do you want to see stay and who do you want to see go?" " It comes down to this:" "Tito, you and Kevin have the two lowest report cards, and clearly you're here again today." "If these were the best two drawings you guys could give to stay in this competition, then I don't see how you're gonna go any further anyway." "Seriously, you can't tell me a little man on a stick with an unfinished background is like," ""Yo." "I killed it." "Drop the mic." "Walk away." "It's all good." It's not." " No, I didn't say I killed it at all." " Your goal was to beat everybody and not to stand in this room." "So was yours." " I need a final decision." " My decision is Tito." " Chris." " Tito." " My vote is also for Tito." "The judges have decided." "Tito, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." " Tito, I think you're a very competent tattooer." "You definitely have what it takes to do great tattoos in the real world." "In this competition setting, it's a different beast inside here." " Please pack your machines and close shop." " From day one, you can see I'm a target." "You shoot me one time, I'm stepping out." "You shoot me two times, I'm still stepping out." "You shoot me three times in my report card, it's gonna show." "This game is tricky." "announcer:" "Still to come this season on "Ink Master."" " From this point on, no one is safe." " [bleep] yeah." "announcer:" "Top five artists on each team will finally battle it out." " Everyone's out for each other." " It's do or die." "I'm a lady tattooer and I tattoo like a lady." " These females, they could knock off some of these dudes easily." " I want to beat the [bleep] out of these boys." " Stop playing the [bleep] vagina card." " Are you [bleep] kidding me right now?" " You're the problem here." " He's a [bleep] tattooer and he needs to get the [bleep] out of here." " You must create a 12-hour tattoo for your canvas's head." " I've had enough of this bull[bleep]." "We got to start going for heavy hitters." " A girl needs to go home." " Get rid of one of them." "That's the ultimate way to [bleep] with their emotions." " Just stir up some [bleep]." " Get inside their [bleep] heads." " I want to look out for the girls, but I don't know if I'm going to have that option." " One major [bleep]-up here." " Is it that major?" " How many of your tattoos have you seen come back ten years later?" "Zero!" " You needed to not be here today." " I know that I fell short, but I gave you a good [bleep] tattoo." "[rock music]" "♪"