"Male announcer:" "This season on "Ink Master"... it's Peck versus Nuñez." "On the last episode, Team Nuñez was out for revenge in the flash challenge." " Team Peck must help each of you find your beach by sculpting it." " My beach is a concert setting watching live music." " Nikki is playing the game." " My sculpture is falling apart." "Damn you, Tito." " Little do they know, I have a Bachelor's degree in sculpture." " The winner of today's flash challenge is Dave." " I'm really nervous about Dave and the sculpting." " I think he has some sort of crazy plan." " I'm basically against my team." " They're gonna [bleep] you over so quick." "♪ announcer:" "In Team Peck's first elimination tattoo," "Dave Robinowitz betrayed his own." " Dave gave the only two rib-to-knee tattoos to the only two girls on the team." " I know it's hard." "Just breathe through it." " Today you were on Team Nuñez, buddy." " You're saying that I'm playing dirty." " You put me in a compromising situation, and I'm on your [bleep] team." "announcer:" "In the elimination, Gia, Ryan, and Geary were the bottom three." " Gia..." " There's so much recklessness going on in this tattoo." " I'm not happy with it." "I'm not delusional." " I think Dave should be down here." " Dave colored inside the lines." "If you color outside the lines, hi, welcome to the bottom." " Ryan..." " Trying to haul ass and cut corners when it's under a microscope... that [bleep] don't fly here." " I really mismanaged my time." " Geary..." " One of the reasons I chose you for the team is for your creativity." "This tattoo doesn't show any of that." " Yeah, it got away from me pretty quickly, I'd say." " Geary, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." "♪ announcer: 16 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]" "♪" "♪" "[tense music]" "♪" " So what happened down there?" " It was sad." "♪" " There you go." " Only the strong survive." "♪ [all] Hey!" " Geary went home, didn't he?" " It is not fun." "Don't go down there." " Well, I definitely learned my lesson." " I learned a big lesson." " I learned many a lesson today." " Many lessons." " Many lessons." " The girls want Dave out of the competition." "Any chance he gets, he's gonna throw us under the bus." "We need to get him out." " All the women hate me right now." " You ain't here to make friends." " They accuse me of competing dirty." " Don't pay no [bleep] attention to that bull[bleep], bro." "It's real easy to [bleep] play the victim because it's someone else's fault, but it's a little bit more difficult to own what the [bleep] you did wrong." " You guys were right." "You were like, "Make enemies and be up front about it."" " Nice guys finish last every [bleep] time." " And the nicest guy just left the building, so if you guys want to be [bleep] nice," "I'll help you pack." " Look, my hand is forced, but it's on." "Like, you know what I mean?" "It's on." "And I'm gonna keep swinging until the judges tell me to go home." "♪ [dramatic music]" "♪" " Welcome." "There are eight artists left on both Team Peck and Team Nuñez." "The judges are thinning out their groups till the five strongest artists remain on each team." "Only one of you will earn $100,000, a feature in "Inked" magazine, and the title of Ink Master." " That's me." " Also on the line:" "A guest spot in either Chris's shop," "Handcrafted in Fort Lauderdale, or Oliver's shop, Elm Street Tattoo in Dallas, Texas." "This week, no one is safe." "All of you will compete, and one artist from each team will be eliminated." "♪" " Of course." " Double elimination day." "Nobody's safe." "The only word that comes to mind is [bleep]." " There will be no flash challenge." "This is your next elimination tattoo." " Oh, my God." "I was all ready for a flash challenge today." "I thought we were gonna have to paint roadkill or something." "But no, it's an elimination challenge, and somehow, that's worse than roadkill." " Today, you must transform your canvas into a warrior by tattooing shoulder armor." " Shoulder armor's [bleep] difficult." "Got to do a huge tattoo, cover a whole shoulder piece." "This is crazy." " But that is not all." "You must work in pairs, tattooing both of your canvasses' shoulders at the same time." " I knew it." " You'll be paired with someone from your team, and you will be judged together." "Each judge has determined who from his team must tattoo as a pair." " Tattooing with somebody at the same time is like tattooing in a car going down a bumpy road." "This is gonna suck." " And today, we're testing texture." "One team will tattoo metal armor, and one team will tattoo leather armor." " Body armor has so much texture." "Skin tears, chains, shields, badges, folds..." "just go to, like, the Renaissance fair and buy an outfit." " Let's meet your canvases." "♪" "Team Peck, by random draw, your team is tattooing leather shoulder armor." " Guys, I tried to pick people that would work well together." "Teams that work well together produce good work together." "The main goal here is to find the top five artists on each team." "A lot of factors go into that." "Who's being the most creative and who's putting out the most clean tattoos?" " Okay, canvases." "One by one, please pick a skull." "The names on the bottom of your skull will determine your artists." " Gia and Gian." " Mike and Ryan." " Thank you, Oliver." "I'm happy that Mike is my partner." "These tattoos have to look like they were done by the same person." "I'm confident that both of us are going to pull our own weight." "♪" " Matt, Boneface." "♪" " Nate and Dave." " This is gonna be an absolute nightmare." "Dave is not a team player;" "he's out for himself." "And he is gonna do something crazy and make me lose." " Team Nuñez, by random draw, your team is tattooing metal shoulder armor." " Styles make fights." "You guys are all on the line." "Right to the point:" "I'm looking to weed out the weakest artists." "We got to get to five." "This is your chance to stay alive." " These are your canvases." "One by one, please pick a skull." " Eric and SketchyLawyer." " Me and Eric are the strongest artists in the competition." "We're gonna kill it." " Kevin and Tuff Tito." " Kelly and Nikki." " Hell yeah, I'm super stoked that I'm working with Kelly." "I'm not gonna have to struggle working with somebody that doesn't know how to tattoo." "We're going to kick ass." " John and Sirvone." " It sucks being judged as a team." "I hope that Sirvone can pull it together and tattoo at the quality that I'm used to tattooing at." " Because no one is safe this week, there will be no jury of peers." "All the decisions will be completely up to the judges." "You'll have six hours to transform your canvas into a warrior." "Good luck." "♪" " I'm Ryan." "Nice to meet you." " In pairing my team up, I wanted to make sure that they would work well together." "These tattoos need to look similar." "You're gonna win as a team or lose as a team." " We're not gonna worry about huge tattoos today." " It's a little bit easier to get textures, I don't know, with black and gray, too." " We're going, uh, black and gray?" " I want color..." "yellow flowers on the armor, like a shoulder cap, almost." " I just don't know how the flower's gonna translate." " I've been to Hungary, and the folk people, they do hand-stamped leather..." " Hand-dyed leather." " Dave is a jackass." " I'm thinking, like, a very simple, like, daisy." " I can guarantee you that Dave's side is not gonna look like my side." " It's up to you to design yours how you want it, and it's up to me to design mine how I want it." " If I was tattooing this canvas by myself, it would come out a hell of a lot better than tattooing with Dave." "♪" " I want an angel on one side and a demon on the other." " We got six hours, man." " It's like, the armor's gonna be made of the angel and the demon engraved in the armor, full color." "I want..." " No, no, no." "It's gonna be black and gray." " I'm a tattoo artist, I know." " This guy is a loud, opinionated bitch." " Would you be willing to compromise with, like, an angel head and a demon head?" " No." "I won't get it unless it's that." " This is gonna be ridiculous." "We're screwed." "[rock music]" "♪" " Okay, artists." "You and your teammate have six hours to tattoo both of your canvases' shoulders at the same time." "Based on your work, two artists will close shop." "Your time begins now." "♪" " So the way I paired my team, I wanted to take people that I knew would be able to complement each other." " But you don't want to go too far down, 'cause then it's not a shoulder thing, you know what I mean?" " I'm putting my tops together, my mediums together, and my bottoms together." "That way, if there's a fight, it's a fair one." " We need to finish our design." "Does that make sense?" " I'm not fooled at all." "This is not a team thing;" "this is a head-to-head tattoo." "My side has to be better than Matt's." " I like the idea, also, of doing the scales in here." "I feel like it would show more depth and have more texture." " He's a lot better than I am at designing this type of thing, so I'm gonna let Matt design the shield." " I don't know how you plan on doing your texture for leather." "You can add, like, imperfections in there after, as well, and then give it more of a leather look, if you want." " I'm gonna add more dynamics to my tattoo, and it will make it look a lot stronger than Matt's side of the tattoo." "You mind sticking it on both sides?" " I'm really aggravated." "I had to put two tattoos together on my own." "It seems like he pretty much just wants me to put him in a" "Baby Bjorn and just carry him through the challenges." "No pressure, right?" " Yeah." " So, we got your ideas." " Oh, that's... oh, yeah." " Feeling this?" " Man!" "That's sick, [bleep]." " That's what I want to hear." " As long as he can shut the [bleep] up and sit still, we'll do a good job." " Ready?" "♪ [tattoo machine buzzing]" "♪" " We have to figure something out to get her, like, closer to where I'm at." " Is there anything you can do to stabilize yourself more?" " Nah, 'cause I'm having to reach, like, too far over." " [sighs]" " Dave was grabbing this canvas and moving her all over the place, and I'm having to adapt to it." "Can you bend it this way?" "Yeah." "It's almost impossible for me to tattoo right now." " How you feeling, man?" " This is hard [bleep], dude." "One person pulling, the other person pulling." " She's got to not get pulled." " Five more hours." "♪" " Hey, Nikki, just anytime you're gonna, like, push or pull, let me know." " Okay." " Sweet, thank you." " I love double eliminations because they weed out the weak quickly." "What's a big deal to me is to make sure that we get the right person to win "Ink Master."" "But I do feel like that person lives on my team." "[tattoo machine buzzing]" " Yup, I'm almost done with all the black shading." "Put some color over it and call it a night." " Battleship gray will work." "That's what I've used for it before." " I kind of wanted it a little bit of a steel blue." " The one issue we're running into right now is our canvas isn't willing to change the color concept of the metal." "I've done metal textures, I've done armor... never have I had to use blue steel to get my point across." "♪" "It's a [bleep] bad idea, man." " Final hour remaining." "♪ [tattoo machine buzzing]" " Yeah, but you're the one out of the three of us leaving here with awesome [bleep] tattoos." " That's right." " Are you gonna throw up?" "[sighs]" " I'm not even close to being done." "If this canvas taps out, we're not gonna finish." "Drink some of that water." " Oh." " Sick or not sick, I'm tattooing this dude, and if he's puking while I'm finishing it, then that's fine." "You think we're gonna be able to go back in?" " Oh, [bleep] yeah." "♪" " Five, four, three, two, one." "That is it." "Time's up." "Machines down." "No more ink." " Right there... oh, [bleep]." " Right." " Awesome." "Love it." " John Collins and Sirvone take an interesting approach of doing blue tribal instead of armor." "Points for creativity." " Thanks, guys." " They made us dogs and now they dog fighting us." "Thrown in a cage and fighting with somebody you eat your meals with." " This thing is jacked up." "I mean, it's crazy." " You made a mess." "You're on the same team, but this is the battle brewing." "[rock music]" "♪" " During that team challenge, Boneface did not help you draw, he did not help you put it together." " Yeah, he didn't even, like, lend me a hand." " Exactly." " Boneface is not a team player." " We're on your team, and we want the best people to continue." " You're definitely a stronger artist." " You think so?" " Mm-hmm." "[dramatic music]" "Obviously, like, you two didn't work well as a team, but you have to learn to work together." " You can just say, "Hey, dude, I'm, like," ""not really into that," you know?" " No, I told you from the beginning." "I said, "I want to do my side this way."" "I want to keep my side simple."" " I feel like you're kind of stabbing me in the back." " You don't work the way I work, dude." "I don't even draw..." "I wouldn't have even drawn that." " I was trying to help you out." " I didn't need any help." " It seems to me that you're the only person playing a lone game." " That's how I choose to play, because at the end of the day," "I am on my own, and I am alone." "I don't care." " But that's your choice." " Exactly." "This girls alliance is getting stronger by the second." "Gia kind of thinks she's better than everybody else." "I'm gonna learn from my mistakes..." " If that's where you want to be..." " And I'm gonna do my own thing." " Okay, all right." "Then that's your decision." "That's your choice." " Yeah, it is." "♪" " Today, you had to show texture by tattooing shoulder armor in pairs within your team, and this is a double elimination." "♪" "Team Peck, you're up first." "We will begin with Matt and Boneface." "♪" " They're very similar." "You have one darker style and one lighter style, but they are the same kind of size, same kind of fit, but what I just don't see in either of these is really the leather texture." " I don't know, I let him design it, and he explained how we needed to shade it, and the canvas wanted it to be the same on both sides." "I kind of, like, rolled with Matt on this one." " Boneface pulled it off a little richer, a little smoother, and a little crisper, but there is confusion in it." "If you look at the bottom where the filigree is, there's not the same shading on each side;" "But it's just kind of random." "The follow-through was not there because you weren't really in tune with what this was supposed to look like in the end." " Matt, the design was challenged." "Neither of them line up properly, because whenever the drawing happened, the drawing wasn't perfect, so that carried over where you come off of the center pieces and you have the piece that Vs down, it definitely has a tilted, off look to it." "Both of them have the same exact errors, but I wish that you guys did your own designs." "♪" " Next up is Ryan and Mike." "♪" " Y'all came up with really good designs." "They're very consistent, super slick, and very smooth." "Ryan, you have a lot of nice, smooth black and gray areas." "You were able to achieve depth when you pushed that cherub head forward with the texture behind that." "The one part that stands out to me is the little leather strap that goes over the ring." "That little shading that creates that molded shape of the leather there..." "that looks really great." " Mike, yours has a lot more of a metal feel, almost like you had been on my team with this one." "Where you kind of lose it in here is in the back areas." "Had you have been able to get the black in the background everywhere, then your design would have pushed forward." "Overall, they wear well." "To the untrained eye, you would think that the same tattooer did both sides." " The one point I think y'all missed is the difference between the little metal buckles and the other shading in here." "I think having those little accents of metal were your chance to do a different texture, but you shaded the rivets and the metal and the buckle pretty much the same way you shaded everything else, so that was a missed opportunity." "And in a texture challenge, if you can show something different, it's always a good thing to take over on." "♪" " Next up is Gian and Gia." "♪" " Well, guys, overall, I think y'all worked well as a team." "Some variances here and there." "Gia, yours looks a little darker, and really, Gia, yours looks a little more rough." " Gia, you have a lot of areas in your Celtic knot where it's thick and thin and they don't line up... especially that big wide piece dead in the center." "When you're doing those, they got to be spot on." "For texture, the one thing that I do like is, Gia, your shading's rougher than Gian's, but if you do take a piece of leather and you bend it, you get those really dark spots, and then you get" "this real bright highlight." "The way you shaded that plays into a nice bending piece of soft leather." "I think that works well." " Gian, you really showed light, subtle texture." "The filigree and the crosshatching... the depth you get on that first little layer, you pulled it off pretty slick." " Overall, the two designs worked well together." "♪" " Next pair up is Dave and Nate." "♪" " Guys, this is really, really rough." "Y'all put together a design that I think had the ability to really shine." "Once you got in the tattoo time, I don't know what happened, man." "This application on either one of these tattoos will not float." "Dave, yours looks the roughest." " The center piece that you have in there... it looks haphazard." "I know you're going for a dug-out look, but it looks messy." " I was going for a rough..." " But why would you go for rough in a place where you got to be so clean?" " I heard "texture" and automatically went, like," ""It's got to feel gritty."" " Well, you hit "gritty."" " And whatever's going on with this big, weird not-symmetrical flower up top... this thing is nothing short of jacked-up." " Nate, your shading... it's not helping this design at all." "It looks like you were in the back of a four-by-four." "This this, you know?" " Oh, it felt that way." " Overall, both your tattoos are messy." "A little bit too much push and pull here went on, and it really hurt it y'all." "♪" " All right, guys." "Which pair on Team Peck had the worst tattoos of the day?" " Probably the weakest design would be" "Matt and Boneface's design." " I don't know about that." " Me neither." " If it was tattooed clean, Dave and Nate's design is a more armor-like design." "Matt and Boneface's looked like a wicker basket sitting on this guy's arm." " I agree with that, but when it comes to application," "I don't think anybody had as rough of a time as Nate and Dave, and they're huge." " I agree." "That girl has two huge messes on her." "The application is just so subpar." "My vote's got to be for Nate and Dave." " Chris?" " Nate and Dave." " My vote is also for Nate and Dave." "Nate and Dave, the judges have determined that you guys have the worst tattoos of the day." " I get it, but I don't think it shows the level that I can tattoo on." " The good news is that you'll have one last chance to redeem yourself." "♪" "You must face off tattooing head-to-head against each other." "♪" " What the [bleep]?" " Lose that battle, and you will be eliminated." "♪" " Dave and Nate, the judges have decided that you have the worst tattoo of the day on Team Peck." "♪" "You must face off tattooing head-to-head against each other." "♪" " What the [bleep]?" " Your fight won't be easy, because Team Nuñez is calling the shots." "♪" "Team Nuñez, what style and subject must they tattoo?" "Remember:" "They're being judged on texture." "♪" "Okay, Team Nuñez?" " The style is black and gray realism, and the subject is animals." " All right, guys." "Your face-off has been set." "The artist with the worst tattoo of the day will be eliminated." "Team Nuñez, time to critique your work." "Please step over to the platform." "♪" "We will start with Eric and SketchyLawyer." "♪" " Guys, I put you together for one real reason, and that was, Sketchy's always up and off to the races, and I felt like with this game of push and pull, you had to get out of the gate right away." "So the only thing that was gonna get that fire under your ass is the fastest guy in the room." " I learned a lot, you know, working with Sketchy." " I think it really came together well." "It was two independent styles, yet two really strong styles." "All of the application on these tattoos are really nice." " Well, Eric, one thing you did that outshined Sketchy in this whole tattoo is each little rivet has a nice little dark undertone and a nice little highlight, and it really creates that bevel." "Small little effects like that really add up in a challenge where you're looking for different textures." " Sketchy, you do have some discrepancies in the face and maybe not highlighting those lips would have been a service so it wouldn't be so noticeable, but that head..." "we see better outlines in this little tiny area than we see in a lot of people's tattoos all day." "The full layout of this thing... it does hit the metal." "The texture in the dress is nice." "I'm glad you guys paired up." "I think it worked out for both of you." " Thank you." "♪" " Nikki and Kelly." "♪" " Both very nice tattoos." "Very well applied." "The two birds look so different, but overall, super clean." "Nikki, I really like the depth you were able to achieve with your rich black, and I think where you really outshined Kelly in this is in the center triangle;" "The shading around your bird... really, really smooth." "You showed multiple textures really well." " Kelly, you showed some really nice textures, as well." "You did really nice divots." "Your lines are very precise and perfect." "I wasn't really fearing you guys working together on a team, and I pretty much put all my faith in it." " That makes my tummy hurt, but thank you very much." " You're on the same team, but this is the battle brewing." "♪" " Next up:" "John Collins and Sirvone." " Honestly, guys, to me, it doesn't really have an armor feel." "These colors that you chose are nowhere near the same palette." " We poured out the exact same color palette, but I just..." " No." "No debate." "These are not the same [bleep] colors." " These things don't look remotely the same." "Since these things are mirror images of each other," "I think that kills you as a team." "♪" " All right, John." "The outside outline that you have all the way around... there's a lot of inconsistencies, which really gives it the more stone feel than the metal." "The metal is gonna be edgy, sharp." "This is definitely a rough tattoo." " Sirvone, John's is messy, but yours seems even messier." "Whatever you got going on with this background color, that is not the way to do it." "Tell me that's solid in any way, shape, or form." " I [bleep] up, man." " I mean, it's crazy." " You made a mess." "Look at the difference in the shapes." "Look at the all the discrepancies everywhere." "Bad choices, man." "Bad choices." " Next pair of artists are Tito and Kevin." "♪" " Guys, as far as just going together as a team and coming up with the design, definitely looks like you did the same tattoo, but unfortunately, they both have the same problems." "I don't really get a metal feel from this." "I don't really get an armor feel from this." "You look at it from a distance, it's just an intricate border with a big gray spot." "Tito, the areas of big smooth gray you got nice, but what is it selling me?" "Is it selling me texture?" "Is it selling me metal?" "Is it selling me dimension?" "It's just smooth, technical application with no end result." "♪" " Kevin, one thing that you did do is the way you decided to shade your center piece..." "it gives it some texture, because it kind of has these weird divots and lumps, but I'm starting to question where you are with your outlines." "'Cause you're rough all the way around your border." " Look at those swirls." "It's just scratchy black lines with scratchy white highlights next to them." "That line work... that's got your name on it." "♪" " All right, guys, time to determine who had the worst tattoo of the day on Team Nuñez." "It's your team." "What do you think?" " My bottom row is safe." "♪" "My top row has a lot of challenges." "Are you in agreement with that?" " Yeah." "Tito and Kevin's, to me, really didn't play off of metal, and neither did John and Sirvone's." " Well, the thing about Tito and Kevin is they had such a minimal amount of work that those things should have been "knock it out of the park" perfect." " People did six-hour tattoos." "Tito and Kevin did three-hour..." " Two-hour tattoos." " John and Sirvone did six-hour tattoos, and they are not six-hour tattoos that I'd like to see come out of here." " And their disconnect from each other as a team, I think, is what hurt them big time." " Those are the two technically worst-applied tattoos on the same team." " Final decision." " My final decision is for John and Sirvone." " Chris?" " My final decision is for John and Sirvone, too." " John and Sirvone, the judges have determined that you have the worst tattoos of the day on Team Nuñez." "You must face off tattooing head-to-head against each other." "The artist that loses that battle will be eliminated, and as before, Team Peck, you guys get to call the shots." "♪" "Okay, Team Peck, what style and subject must these guys tattoo?" " We just want to make it a really level playing field, so we felt like the most righteous thing to do is just to do the same:" "Realistic black and gray animals." " All right, the face-offs have been set." "One artist from each team will be packing their machines." "Your canvases have been randomly assigned and are completely open." "You will have six hours to tattoo." "Lose your face-off, and you will be eliminated." "Good luck." "♪" " I feel like both teams are plotting against me." " Dave made his own bed and now he has to lie in it." " They made us [bleep] dogs and now they dog fighting us." " You got a lot of redness." " Total failure." "♪" " Now the bottom two are gonna have to go head-to-head." " I think it's bull[bleep] that we're at the bottom." "My tattoo is very dynamic." "The other ones were just fluff." " I'm pretty confident I can do a black and gray animal portrait and knock it out of the park." " Y'all don't get that [bleep], do you?" "We came to this mother[bleep] to be wolves, and then we on teams, so they made us [bleep] dogs and now they dog fighting us." "When you at the bottom and you being a dog that's thrown in a [bleep] cage to fight with somebody you [bleep] eat your meals with." " But there's no team that's winning Ink Master." "It's one person." " I understand that." "And I'm just saying that it's a different feeling." "It's comfortable when you ain't got to do [bleep]." "♪" "Just getting in that groove for what I got to do for this." " You're certainly more seasoned at this than I am." " It sucks me and John Collins got put on the bottom." "I don't want to have to take out my teammate, but if that's what I got to do to stay in this game, then I'ma do it." " How are you doing, man?" " Putting all the competition and everything out of my mind." "I'm just gonna do a nice tattoo." "I feel pretty confident that I'll be able to produce a tattoo that's nicer than Sirvone's." "I can see how it might be hard for some people to go against another teammate." "I don't feel that way." "I'm sending him home." "♪" " Let me show you what I got for you... nice fighting rooster with a lot of texture." " Looks good." " Nice." "Team Nuñez picked black and gray animal realism as a fair style for me and Nate Beavers to fight over." " Dave's so smart." "That rooster has two totally different textures in it." " Nate Beavers has been doing animal realism for about 25 years now." "I've done about two or three of them." "This is an opportunity for them to take me out." " I think Nate's gonna kill it." " I think Nate's gonna kill it, too." " I have an owl." " Cool." "I can dig that." "Right on." " It's gonna be bad-ass." "A head-to-head tattoo with Dave... this is what I've been hoping for." "I'm gonna send his ass packing right now." "[rock music]" "♪ [dramatic music]" " Okay, artists, you have six hours to face off, tattooing against your teammate." "One artist from each team will be eliminated." "And your time begins... now." " All right, let's do this, bro." " Let's get the stencil on." " Face-off situations create one of two things:" "Complete success or total failure." " Can I see that stencil?" " I'll just work through it, add all the texture I need." " The battle royal begins." " What do you think, Gia?" " My personal opinion would be to angle it down, because it's more flattering on the body..." " I'm kind of liking the way that it's placed." " You know, don't change your plans." " Both teams are doing animals for black and gray realism." "Texture is abundant... wet pupils, feathers, fur, teeth." "Today would be a great day for somebody to really show off." " I suggested tilting the head, 'cause right now it's, like, falling back on the thigh, and he was like, "Mm, no."" " If you don't take advice from people that know what they're talking about, your tattoo is gonna suffer." " Especially going up against Nate." " I think Team Nuñez picked the black and gray animal portraits so I could not only beat Dave, but obliterate him." "The majority of what I do is animal portrait work." "Unless lightning strikes me, Dave's going home." " I ain't gonna lie." "I knew that Dave would take offense to it, because he knows that Nate can do this stuff." " That's the name of this game." " I feel like both teams are really working together and plotting against me." " Coming from a Jewish family, I was very guilty for becoming a tattoo artist." "You're not supposed to be tattooed 'cause you're a Jew." "I came here to prove to my family that I deserve to be a tattoo artist." " Three hours, guys." "Three hours remaining." "♪" " What I'm shooting for today is texture." "Not worrying about nothing else." "I'm capturing texture in this by showing the smoothness of the horns and every wrinkle in this rhino's face." "Double elimination." "This is [bleep] crazy." "I feel like the team picked a subject matter most definitely hooked me up." "Black and gray realism is my wheelhouse." " Good job with the line there, man." "Boy, this [bleep] is gonna get tough." " Yeah, I think Sirvone's got me man..." " No." "I know it's tough, bro." " Both of 'em tough, bro." " Yeah, but he's got all the texture." "I've never done a portrait of an animal." "I do American traditional tattooing." "There's no texture in that." "I'm gonna go back in and add darker, like, feather shadows in there." "I think that'll create more of a highlight, too." "I have two daughters relying solely on my abilities." "The pressure's on." "If I don't nail this [bleep] tattoo, I'm going home." " This is your final hour." "One hour remaining." "♪" " This is pretty loose." "Maybe just run a crisp line." " Like, black?" " Yeah, it'll help it." " That's red as [bleep]." " It is pretty red." " Honestly, today is not gonna be a good day for Team Nuñez." "Whatever happens, we're losing a strong competitor, and Team Peck is just losing dead weight." " I feel like so far..." "Nate, this is, like, his first chance to do something that he likes." " He and Nate can pull that off..." "I was not expecting that." "I think both of my guys beat the [bleep] out of the gate." " Whole team pretty much wants Dave out." "I feel like when we started out the teams, overall, you probably had a stronger artistic front;" "On the team," "I had a little bit stronger of a positivity of attitude team, getting the first week or two out of the way, the weaknesses are really becoming more apparent." " Five, four, three, two, one." "That is it." "Time's up." "Machine's down." "No more ink." " It's already a lot less red." " Yeah." " Dave's tattoo is looking like it hurts." "His skin looks red, inflamed." "Bye, Dave." " [sighs]" " Yeah." "That looks good, dude." " Thanks, man." " The texture on it... it's like you could almost pet it." " I'm happy with this." " Dave ate [bleep] downstairs just now." " I thought he was gonna do better, but he just, like, rushed." " He made his own bed, and now he has to lie in it." "I don't want to be on a team with Dave." "He's a manipulator, and he's a [bleep] liar about it." "They better send his ass home." " I think that we can give the boys a run for their money." " There has to be at least one of us that makes it to the end." "I want a girl to win this year." " There's power in numbers, and this is a hard fight for one of us, but if we all stick together, we're that talented, and the men are so threatened by us because they're insecure." " We must be a threat to them." " They should be afraid." "♪" " Today you faced off against your teammate." "As you know, this is a double elimination." "♪" "We'll start with Team Nuñez." "John and Sirvone, you tattooed black and gray realistic animals head-to-head." "One of you will be packing your machines." "John, you're up first." " The pattern that you got on the back of the bird was a nice touch to try to show some of the variance in the feathers and the patterns that they have." "I do see some nice texture under the neck." "I think you went a little dark on the beak." "If you keep the beak lighter, it shows more depth in the black." " I really like this tattoo." "I think it's strong, it's bold, it stands out from across the room." "There's some areas where you could have upped the contrast to give it a little more dynamics, but for someone who does more traditional tattoos, you've got a lot of fine-line details, you've got smooth gray shading." "I think you really outshined the expectations of yourself in this challenge." " Let's move on to Sirvone." " Super strong, brilliant tattoo." "You really got some areas of depth, and you really got these creases." "You look into the eye, where the wrinkles close around the eye..." "the eye looks really inset." " You pulled off some really, really nice technical things here... the way that you were mindful of leaving that tiny little highlight on the upper lip before it joins to the bottom lip... those are really nice tricks." " I think it's the best thing that you've shown us." "I mean, you can picture rubbing your hand across this guy and feeling all the textures and creases in his skin." "It just hits the challenge for me." "It's killer, dude." "♪" "Okay, Team Peck, you're up." "Dave and Nate, you tattooed black and gray realistic animals head-to-head." "One of you will be packing your machines." "Nate." " This thing came out really dynamic." "Your use of negative in here was really nice... these areas where, without any lines at all, you still have the inference of these whisker-type feathers going off the eyes and in front of the beak." " If you look at the top of the head and you see those little negative spaces, it looks like you could brush your finger over the top of that and those would individually move every single time." "That is top-notch work." "For you to be able to come in under pressure and knock this thing out of the park like this..." "I mean, I couldn't expect you would ever be in the bottom again." "♪" " Dave." " Overall, you really pulled this image out." "It's very recognizable." "You did a pretty good job throughout the face and the eye, getting this nice little shine, so the details, but you got a lot of redness." "And the red's gonna go away, but when it does go away," "I can still tell where those areas of gray are not gonna be the same here as they are here as they are here." " You're missing some strong elements of outline in this." "That mouth is lost with the background." "If you squint, it all becomes almost the same field." " Black and gray realism is not my strong suit." " It looks just messy." "♪" " Guys, it's time to determine who's going home on Team Peck." "♪" " This actually is a tough challenge right here, because you've got one guy that is obviously familiar with this style, you have another guy who... never done this style." "So he's fighting an upward battle, and then you've seen what they've done so far in the competition." "Who really has what it takes to go the farthest down the road?" " We saw the traditional Dave;" "we saw the Japanese Dave." "I would say they were pretty neck-and-neck." " If they've been equal up until this point, then whoever comes out on top is gonna be the winner of the day." " I need a final decision." "Who is going home?" " Nate, this is a stunning tattoo, man." "My choice is for Dave." "♪" " Dave." " The judges have decided." "Dave, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." "♪" " Dave, you know, when I first picked you for the team," "I figured you were gonna be suited for this competition." "You tattoo fast, you tattoo very confident." "Depending on how these challenges would have come... if next week's challenge was this week instead, you might have made it even further." " I feel like I went up against somebody that... this is what he's been doing for a lifetime of work, and me going against this guy, I don't have a chance." "But I tried." " Please pack your machines and close shop." "♪" " This competition is about forming alliances with people, and if you don't form the right alliances with people, you get to do black and gray realism against Nate Beavers." "That's why I'm going home." "♪" " All right, guys, time to determine who's going home on Team Nuñez." " John, you don't do this, and you came out swinging." "And Sirvone, this is definitely the best tattoo you've produced." "They're both strong." " You get really close up on Sirvone's, you outshine him technically with the details and the smoothness of the shading." "John's is very recognizable, and I think if you gave the laymen out there in the world to pick which tattoo they'd want to have, chances are a lot of people would pick John's." " Just in terms of shape and the way it is on the body," "I kind of lean that way, myself." "♪" "My final decision..." "I like John's tattoo better." " On technical ability, in this texture challenge, my choice is to send John." "♪" " Basing it on texture, I do believe that Sirvone won." "John, my vote's for you to go home." "♪" " The judges have decided, John, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." " This is not a bad outing." "It's just a pity that this is where you make the first outing." "It's a tough one." " Please pack your machines and close shop." "♪" " Sirvone's tattoo hit the challenge." "Sucks that I lost to something that looks like a wrinkly nut sack." "I think if the shoes were on the other foot, he wouldn't be able to do what I do well." "There's no [bleep] way this is the last time you're gonna hear from me." "♪ announcer:" "On the next episode of "Ink Master"..." " You must work with a completely unpredictable medium." " Ow!" " Electricity." " What's your plan?" " Not [bleep] die." " I see your ass walk past me, I'm taking you down." " Then come at me, Sirvone." " Nikki and Kelly are not on your team." " But..." " But you treat them as if they are." " At what point are you gonna hit the gas and take off?" " I would love to hear something, but there's nothing you got." " You don't have to like every tattoo I do." " You didn't really pull it off." " I don't agree." "I think you did a great job." "♪"