"Male announcer:" "This season on "Ink Master,"" "it's Peck versus Nuñez." " I want to beat the [bleep] out of these boys." " Stop playing the [bleep] vagina card." "announcer:" "No one was safe as the top five artists of each team finally went head to head." " Every one's out for each other." " It's do or die." " You'll have six hours today to tattoo the left side of the head, and six hours tomorrow to tattoo the right side of the head." " These canvases are out of their minds." "announcer:" "In a massive twist, the artists had to finish their opponents' tattoos." " What?" " You haven't really shined or impressed." " I haven't had to try." "There ain't nothing I can do to get sent home." "[tense music] announcer:" "In the elimination, Nate, Sketchy, and Mike were the bottom three." " Sketchy." "You got really comfortable 'cause you didn't feel like your ass was on the line." " I do script all the time, man, and it's good." " That Y, the way it goes over the ear, out of sort." " Nate." "Your tattoos pop out as eye-catching, but these lines are not all clean." " I guarantee you I can show you clean line work." " I feel like this one got away from you." "♪" " Mike." " These tattoos have a lot of problems." "None of the mechanisms really tie in together." "They're all just kind of overlapping." " I got no excuses for the gears." " Mike, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." "♪ announcer:" "Nine artists remain, but only one will earn a $100,000 prize and the title of Ink Master." "[rock music]" "♪" "[dramatic music]" "♪" " That was not cool." "Throw me under the bus." "I don't give a [bleep]." " How can I back your eye up, bro?" " Dude, that eye was so [bleep] up." " I didn't like that." "Calling what you made, bro." " I think they're all scared of me." " How in the world..." " Plain as day." " Could we be scared if you're in the bottom again?" " The only reason you would want to vote me off is 'cause you're scared." " I'm not afraid of you." "I don't think anybody here is." " Like, why would we be afraid?" " I'm playing the underdog." "That was my strategy, play it mediocre." " What?" " You're not even trying to put out your best possible work?" " That's my strategy." " Man, [bleep] you, bro." "That's bull[bleep]." " I'm playing my game." " What the [bleep] you're saying right now is blowing my mind, dude." "It makes no [bleep] sense." " I haven't..." "not one cool canvas." " So what?" "You got to make the best." " Really?" " If you want dumb stuff, you're gonna get a dumb tattoo." " I don't get that, bro." " These canvases, they're people." " Everybody gets the tattoo they deserve." " That's [bleep] up." " That's his game." "That's his game." " Okay." "Oh, it's his game." "♪ [rock music]" "♪ [dramatic music]" "♪" " [laughing] Hell yeah." "♪" " Welcome." "This competition began with 18 of you, and now only half of you remain." "Five on team Nuñez and four on Team Peck." "For this flash challenge, it's Team Peck versus Team Nuñez." " Power in numbers." " The winners of the flash challenge will have the power to assign all human canvases in the elimination tattoo as a team." " That's what's up." " This week we're testing detail." " Detail is when you have all of the extras on it." "There's a cake." "It's the icing, the sprinkles, the name, the cherries." "All that [bleep] is the details." " And today you have a very special canvas... ♪" "A Dodge Charger." " I love working on cars." "I've been painting cars since I was a kid." " While Dodge Chargers come in unique colors such as Plum Crazy and Tor Red featured here, you must draw a detail design onto an all-white Charger using only permanent markers." "♪" " Oh, man." " Do you realize how huge a Dodge Charger is in comparison to the size of a Sharpie?" "You have got to be kidding me." " Your design must accentuate the power of the Dodge Charger." " You have thousands of Sharpies here." "Go to town on these things." " Treat the car like a lady." "Use every line and every curve of the car and make it beautiful." " Team Peck, you had an artist eliminated last week, so your team will be working with one less artist." " With only four people, it's gonna be a huge pain in the ass to cover this whole car." "We really need to win this skull pick because we can't afford to go down to three players in this competition." " We just went through an intense elimination, and anything can happen at any time all the time." "Coasting will get you slammed, so do your best work always." " You will have six hours to create a powerful detail design on your Dodge Charger, and your time starts now." " Okay." " Let's start with the front." " The artists have to draw a lot of detail work on a big canvas." "Put one little sharp line on a car, you're not gonna see it from across the room." " 'Cause it's detail," "I would do a really cool rendition of a ram." "This is the time for my team to really step it up." "We've got to win this flash challenge and get this back to a level playing field." " We just have to think about what's gonna look dynamic." " I love the idea of redoing the little bee thing." "That's gonna be tight." " We could do the bee holding onto the front grill like this, like... [laughter]" " That's what she said, and I love the idea, and that shows the power, right?" " What's more powerful and stronger than, like, metal [bleep] chains?" " Man, I think we're getting into a mess of chain." " Nate has proven himself to be pretty useless in team challenges, and Boneface is not an artist." "The fate of Team Peck relies in the hands of me and Gian." " You think we got time to do all that with a Sharpie in six hours?" "There's no way, man." " Boys, this is what we're doing." "It's a lot of chain, but we have six hours." "[rock music]" "♪" " Who came up with this crazy idea of doing bees?" "Oh, yeah, that was me." "We're doing these cute-ass little bumblebees on this muscle car." "I'm not so sure about it." "I say we make them look more angry 'cause that thing just doesn't look tough to me." " Drawing, like, mean and burly and stuff, you might be better suited to making that character." " Last week, I got my ass reamed." " You got really comfortable 'cause you didn't feel like your ass was on the line." " That can't happen again." "Some people get four strikes." "I get one." " Four more hours, guys." "Four more hours." "[dramatic music]" "♪" " Seems like it needs more crap like the, um, nose, how the nose looks." " Yeah, I'm gonna do it." "I'm gonna do it right here." " I'm not going to the bottom again." "I need to win this flash challenge so I can get a little bit of control in what happens." "I was thinking maybe we should just tape off and do, like, some racing stripes over the top to the back." " I would go from the sides and forget about that roof." " I have great ideas, but they just won't listen to me." "You think there should be a cover..." " No, like, line it." " Maybe there should be a color..." " On the inside?" " Like, you see how this is thick line?" "I'll thick line the inside with yellow." "♪" " This is your final hour." " How'd it get so hard with the freaking colors?" " I feel like they're doing detail in, like, black." "Ours is way cooler." " Yeah, but it's not gonna get done." " It won't get done?" "Sketchy has pulled me out of bad moments time after time trying to get my head in the game." "How is he not taking his own advice?" "Get your act together." "♪" " Five, four, three, two, one." "That's it." "Time is up." "Sharpies down." "♪" " Damn." " I love that." " Dope." "He's my favorite." " What is Team Nuñez doing?" "Bees make honey." "Bees are sweet." "That's not a powerful animal." " We'll live with it." "♪" " All right, guys, time to critique your work." "Today you had to show detail by accentuating the power of the Dodge Charger." "Team Peck, you're up first." "Lots of really great detail, the iconic ram, the chains breaking away." "Each one of those links is the same size." " We were also down one person from the Nuñez Team, so we went putting as much detail as we possibly can in with line work." " You paid attention." "The main keywords today were detail and the power of the car." "You also hit flow." "The way this is designed to fit on the car, the nose to the goat and the eyes in the recesses of the shape of the hood, the horns going around the wheels, is awesome." " What I don't like about this is that yellow in the fire." "Terrible idea to put that yellow in there." "It looks like [bleep]." "If that fire was red to match that stripe, it would look awesome." "It's the only place on the car where it looks like you sketched with a Sharpie." "That kills it." " Team Nuñez." " I'm surprised out of five artists that y'all all agreed on cute cartoon bees to show the power of a muscle car." "You definitely have detail in the cartoon bees, but you have a huge white car, and some thin black lines that when you look up close, you see a lot of inconsistencies." "It's not stacking up." "♪" " Really looks like you put a lot of time and effort into the bees on the hood." "The problem is that the strength doesn't follow through so that you actually get some play out of the shapes of the car." " Looking at our car now, these bees might be too stupid." "Hindsight." "♪" " All right, guys, today we're testing detail showing the power of Dodge Charger." "One man down, your team seemed to really do well today." " Short a man, they still all seemed to really work well together." "They took the detail challenge and really ran with it." "It had the same hand style throughout." "Thick lines, the thin lines, the detail lines, it's a very strong, powerful image that is relatable to the brand." " I feel like my team came off a little flat." " I think they just took a bad approach." "Actual detail in the bees and the cartoony style they had is awesome." " The bee was a great concept in theory." "They just don't create any movement with the car." " Let them know?" " Yeah." " All right." "♪" "Today was Team Peck versus Team Nuñez, and you had to create a detailed design inspired by the power of the Dodge Charger." "♪" "The judges have decided the winners of today's flash challenge... are Team Peck." " Whoo." " Yes." "I can't believe we just pulled this off with only four people." " You guys, I think it's pretty clear to the room." "It being a detail challenge, everything that you put in is super clean." "Definitely fits the car, and it definitely shows the power of the Dodge." " You guys are gonna have the power to assign the human canvases in the elimination tattoo as a team." " It's gonna be hard to convince Ryan to shoot at the girls." "I really want to go after Nikki, but I feel like we're gonna have a lot of argument with Ryan." " All of you can head back to the loft." "♪" " It's us versus them." " But I know that they have my back." " I don't give a [bleep]." "It doesn't matter who's got a penis or a vagina today." " I'm sick as [bleep]." "Everything that I hoped didn't happen happened." "[blows nose] [dramatic music]" "♪" " We ain't gonna play nice with the other team." " So picks, how's that gonna go down?" " I want to say Eric." " Then?" " Sketchy." " Sketchy?" "Come on." " See, now you're just riding with the girls." " Do you think either of the girls are gonna be able to go home today?" " Well, that doesn't mean I'm not gonna shoot at them." " But you guys have to think, "Who is the easiest person on Nuñez to get out?"" " I couldn't care less about that." "I want [bleep] shoot at the best artists." "The girls are strong." " Do you really want them riding like that if you're trying to win?" " But I know that they have my back." " Sketchy and Eric, they're my boys, man, but you know what?" "I don't give a [bleep] today." " It's us versus them regardless of who you're friends with." " It doesn't matter who's got a penis or a vagina today." "You got really make sense to make it to the end." "Don't [bleep] it up." "♪ [rock music]" "♪ [dramatic music]" "♪" " Welcome to the next elimination tattoo." "It's every artist for himself or herself because in the end, only one of you will win $100,000, a feature in "Inked" magazine, and the title of Ink Master." "Also on the line, a guest spot at Chris's shop, Hand Crafted, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, or Oliver's shop, Elm Street Tattoo, in Dallas, Texas." "This week we have a very special guest judge." "He's a linebacker for the Denver Broncos, and he was the 2015 Super Bowl MVP." " Von Miller." " Von Miller." "[rock music] [applause]" "♪" " That's dope." " Thanks for joining us, buddy." "Good to see you." " Good to see you." " Hell yes." "Von Miller's a beast." "He basically carried that team through the Super Bowl." " I got my first tattoo when I turned 18 years old with my mom." "We both got tatted on the same day." "I got new school." "I got old school." "I like religious tattoos." "I love tattoos with a passion." " What do you look for in a tattoo?" " You got to make it detailed, make it clear." "But for me, just make it creative, make it stand out." "What makes a Ink Master to me is the versatility." "You got some of the best tattoo artists around, and I just want to see some amazing work." " From now on, each week everyone is up for elimination, and all of you will form the jury of peers, critiquing each other's work and putting one artist up for elimination." "And for this elimination tattoo, you must tattoo a classic symbol of the passage of time:" "An hourglass." "[tense music]" "Your canvases today want meaningful images incorporated into their hourglass tattoos." "You must use detail to make these images work within the body of the hourglass." " Detail is so difficult on an hourglass tattoo." "You need to make the glass look shiny." "You need to make the sand look like it's grainy." "That takes teeny tiny little textures." "So much can go wrong." " Let's meet your canvases." "♪" "Team Peck, you won the flash challenge." "That means you have the power to assign all the human canvases as a team." " Guys, you did a great job on that flash challenge." "You have a great advantage today." "Hopefully you make the most of it." "♪" " I ain't trying to protect anybody right now." "I'm going after everybody on Team Nuñez, so none of them are safe." " I'm looking to get a black and gray antique hourglass with my father's clock embedded in it." "It's multiple clocks, actually, with the gear work as well as the roman numerals." " And you want it inside of the hourglass?" " Yes." " Jesus, man." " Damn it." " We got to start winning these flash challenges." " I'm doing a black and gray gothic," "Roman mythology hourglass right on the ribs." " On the ribs?" "You willing to change that spot?" " No, no changes." " I do not want to tattoo the big buff dude on the ribs." "In my personal experience, the buffer these guys are, they [bleep] cry during their tattoo." " I'd like, like, a new-school, super-bright color twisted hourglass." " Where's it going?" " My butt cheek." " Butt cheek." " Oh, [bleep]." " All right." "Are you willing to change that spot?" " I don't really have many other options." " This [bleep] guy." " I don't want to have anything to do with the ass-cheek tattoo." "I don't want to manscape the ass cheek." "I don't want to [bleep] tattoo the ass cheek." "I want nothing to do with that thing." " A realistic hourglass with a anatomical heart dripping blood onto a tree." " Okay, let's huddle." " We'll be back." "Thank you." " I'm outnumbered." "I want to look out for the girls, but I don't know if I'm going to have that option." " [whispering] Nikki with the ribs." " Yeah." " [bleep]." " Yeah." "Yeah." " We all know Ryan is gonna want to look out for the girls, but it's three against one." "She's outvoted, and majority rules." "We have some dead-set color ones that we can give out to the guys who want to do black and gray, which is Eric." " He's gonna be [bleep]." " Yeah." "♪" "Don't change that spot, buddy." "It's a good one." "Do that butt cheek, man." " [bleep]." " This is the last one." "All right." " Okay, canvases, one by one, please read the artist's name on the bottom of your skull." " Kevin." " That's me." "♪" " Kelly." " I got the canvas that wants the proverbial ten pounds of [bleep] in a five-pound bag." "Thanks, Team Peck." "♪" " Nikki." "♪" " I know where you sleep, Gian." " I..." " That little [bleep]." " Boneface." " SketchyLawyer." "♪" "I'm pissed." "I don't do photo-realism and color [bleep]." "Mother[bleep]." "♪" " Eric." " Work your ass off." " [laughs]" " I [bleep] knew it." "Team Peck is definitely screwing me over." " Nate." " Ryan." " Gian." " Guys, you will have six hours to tattoo a detailed hourglass." "Based on your work, one of you will close shop." "Good luck." " I'm so excited." " Me too." " Hourglass could be a good test of detail 'cause there's a lot of different elements and a lot of different textures to show." " To get all of that little stuff done is insanely time consuming." " The person with the best detail is gonna make this hourglass look real, gonna make the glass look see-through, make the grains of the sand stand out." " This will be an awesome owl." "I want to see Team Peck do better than Team Nuñez." " Simple, and so we can focus a lot on the detail on the inside of the hourglass." " Yep." " I want to see four strong Team Peck tattoos." " You're annoyed you got me." "I know you are." " It is a hard area to tattoo." "I'm gonna need to see where we're gonna be tattooing." " Just pull them down?" " Yep, basically." " Sorry." " If I don't get my canvas to change their mind," "I don't know what I'm gonna do." "Honestly, dude, you have a lot of space right here, dude." " Yeah." " It would look really [bleep] cool right here, dude, and I don't know if you've ever talked to anybody that's gotten their ass tattooed, but it's a [bleep] painful, painful area to tattoo." " Yeah, I'm sure." "I'm sure." "They all are." " Not... not as much as the ass though." " Well, you'll have the back of my thigh." "I had my whole head done, and that sucked." "That's why I figured my ass can't really be worse than my head." " I can't believe this is happening." "He's stuck on getting his ass tattooed." "I'm [bleep]." " Here's the thing." "The challenge today is detail." "I'm gonna make your hourglass as detailed as possible, and tattooing on the ribs makes everything go by twice as slow." " Why don't you just draw it up, and then, you know, we'll take it from there." " This guy thinks he's a tough guy that knows exactly what he's talking about." "We're not gonna be able to finish it." " There's really no way that you can do it in six hours?" "I mean, I have seen..." " No." "There's... it's the hardest area on the body to tattoo." " Six hours, I had all this done." " I know, but every artist is different." " Right." " If I can't talk him out of the ribs, I'm screwed." "Okay." " I mean, I don't want to be, like, a dick or anything, but, like, I'm set on that." "♪ [dramatic music]" "♪" " That little bug, Gian, he's going down for this [bleep]." "He was trying to keep it real the whole time, and then he comes with some [bleep] bull[bleep]." "Like, no, bro." " Thanks for [bleep] us over." " You can't [bleep] me over, dude." "I got comfortable for a second, but I'm back." "You gonna give me photo-realism?" "Watch me do it too." "I'm gonna [bleep] crush it." "I damn sure I ain't going to the bottom this time, and if I do, I'm throwing everybody under the damn bus." "If I ever get a pick, bitch, you're gone." "I got you now." "Your [bleep] ass is gone, player." "♪" " Okay, artists, you have six hours to tattoo an hourglass showing detail, and your time starts... now." " Let's do this." " Yay!" " Okay, let's go." " Let's get this thing done." "[rock music]" " Hourglasses can be done so many different ways." "It's a chance for someone to really shine if they're good with their detail." "[tattoo machine buzzing]" "Team Nuñez lost the flash challenge." "Team Peck is on a positive note." "Going into the elimination tattoo with the advantage, it's gonna give us that boost to be able to knock one of Team Nuñez out." "I don't want to go into next week's elimination with three people against Nuñez's five." " What are you doing, bud?" " She wants two different scenes in each thing." "I was gonna keep this [bleep] real simple like that." "Like, not too much..." " But you need detail." "Today's detail." "It's gonna get tricky, especially if you're gonna show a reflection, an actual front, across, across, and across, with a mountain." "Kevin LaRoy is a nice guy that does his own [bleep]." "Kevin tells me, "Yes, yes, yes,"" "and then does "No, no, no."" "Make sure it's, like, working to your advantage." "♪" " Copy." "♪" " Okay, artists, five more hours." "You have five more hours." "[dramatic music] [tattoo machine buzzing]" " Everything that I hoped that didn't happen happened." "[sighs]" "Doing a [bleep] new-school tattoo on a guy's ass." "[coughs]" " I feel bad for you not feeling good, man." "That sucks." " And on top of it," "I'm sick as [bleep]." "I'm spending more than an hour blowing my nose... [blows nose]" "Sanitizing my hands, changing gloves, and it [bleep] everything up with my tattoo." "[blows nose]" "♪" " [inhales sharply]" " My canvas originally wanted an hourglass on his ribs, but I talked him into moving it to his bicep instead." "♪" " [grunts]" " I'm so glad I did." " I need a minute. [groans]" " He can't even sit for a bicep tattoo." " Extremely painful." " Come on." "You can do it." "It's really just about zoning out, you know?" " But I don't see how anybody could do that when a needle is in your arm." "♪" " Let me see what you got." "God damn it. - [laughs]" " Nikki's canvas told me he wasn't gonna change the location of the tattoo." "What the [bleep]?" " Try to [bleep] me over, and you can't." " God damn it." " [laughs]" " It's a waste of my skull pick." " Three hours, guys." "Three hours." "♪" " When I was 16, I was diagnosed as obsessive-compulsive." "♪" "I'm very particular about the way everything is done when I'm tattooing, so I am not a fast tattooer." "This competition, it's always just a game of hurry up with everything." " You're gonna win this week." "No issues." " Okay." "This canvas wants these incredibly intricate clocks." "Like, we've got six hours." "I have no idea if we're actually gonna finish this." "♪" " Looks awesome." " It looks great." "I want to get the feathers done and then go in and start detailing it." " Okay." " The better I feel about this tattoo, the worse I feel for our alliance." "♪" "It's obvious I couldn't save them during the skull pick." "♪" "If they don't pull through," "I could be sending one of my girls home." "♪" " Final hour." "One hour remaining, artists." "♪" " Team Peck gave me the guy who wants a photo-realism, anatomical heart dripping blood on a tree of life." "What the [bleep]?" " I was like, "Man, I probably confused the [bleep] out of him."" " A couple little details, man, 'cause it's all about the details." "After almost getting kicked off, right after that, losing a flash challenge, I'm feeling like ass." "I'm worried about never going back to the bottom." "I got to do a great job on this tattoo." " Five, four, three, two, one." "That's it." "Machines down." "Time is up." "No more ink." "♪" " Nice, man." "Perfect, dude." " Good." " Yeah, thank you." " Cool." " Oh, damn." "Wow, that's sweet." "You got it way bigger than I thought it was gonna end up too." " Glad you like it." " It's dope as hell, man." " Eric, the only thing I can say is that this tattoo is ass." "You should definitely be worried about going home today." " [sighs] [sniffles]" " Don't tell me that we're gonna go for the girls and then you shoot at me, mother[bleep]." " I got to." " We can't be aiming for each other right now, man." " This thing is jacked from the get-go." " This one shows a lot of struggle from you." "It's bad." " I gave you a good [bleep] tattoo." "♪ [dramatic music]" " Gian, don't tell me that we're gonna go for the girls and then you shoot at me, mother[bleep]." " I got to." "I mean, how the [bleep] am I gonna shoot at Kelly and Nikki and not shoot at you guys?" " We can't be aiming for each other right now, man." "Those chicks are strong, bro." " No." "If you ask the group, I had to go with what our team was saying, you know, and Ryan wanted to shoot at you first." " Why?" "What the [bleep] for?" " 'Cause she knew that if you were down there, you were going home." " Oh, that's [bleep] up." "♪" " Today you had to tattoo a detailed hourglass." "Team Peck, you assigned the canvases." "Let's see how you did." "Ryan, you're up first." "♪" " When I heard the canvases' requests," "I wasn't sure how you were gonna get it together, but you killed it." "The detail in the hourglass, the detail in the feathers." "Detail is the word of the day, and you definitely killed it." " This tattoo has detail all the way throughout it." "The cracks and the weathering of the skull, and then also your transition from the sand to the skull was really well done." " You have a lot of creativity." "Your drawings are fun to look at." "You're definitely pushing harder artistically than a lot of people in the room." "♪" " Gian." "♪" " It's a dope tattoo." "The owl is, like, super sick." "I like the eyes." "Like, all the feathers line up nicely." " When it comes to the details, it's pretty simple, but at the same time, everything's really nice." " It's really good to see you do this black and gray just be as smoothly applied as your color is." "I think it was a good shot for you to go black and gray out today, and you definitely are standing strong." "Looks smooth." "♪" " Nate." "♪" " You have a lot of really great areas of detail that really shine nicely." "The shadow under the butterfly, the shading inside the wings, the little dots you have trailing off like the sand is becoming the butterflies, very cool." "Your outline is very crisp and sharp, and where you put white highlights in, it accentuates how clean that line is." "We've seen some rough tattoos from you in the past, and you really came back and cleaned it up." "♪" " Boneface." "♪" " You came out with a pretty strong piece, and there's some details in here that stand out strong." "How small that heart is, getting that detail in there and not over-cluttering it," "I think you did a great job." " The bird for me is a deal breaker." "Doesn't have that strong, dark raven body." "This looks like a heavy pigeon." "Just doesn't play to the strength of the rest of the tattoo." "♪" " Nikki." "♪" "How did you feel receiving this canvas?" " Oh, I knew they were gunning for me." "I knew the minute that he said he was wanting it on his ribs and he was stuck on certain things." " I got to tell you, I think, honestly, the area that you did is harder than tattooing ribs." "This is a really tough area of skin on anybody to be able to pull off really strong, clean, straight lines, and you did." "The top of your hourglass, beautiful." "The bottom of your hourglass, beautiful." "Your posts with the little skulls, not overdone, yet very legible, very readable." " What was the tree about?" "Did he ever tell you?" " He just wanted a creepy, spooky tree." "It's great." "I can't really see the tattoo without the tree." "I think the tree makes the tattoo." " Fitting this tattoo into the spot so it just really flows with what he already had gives it that creepy look that he wanted." "Good job." " Thank you." "♪" " Kelly." "♪" " I think this thing has a strange composition." "It has an unfinished feel to it." "The little outline that's on the top of the sand, you have those two little spots where it gets really dark, and then the outline disappears." "The number seven definitely looks unfinished in there." " Looking at details in this thing, there aren't tons of them." "I left the inside of the hourglass a bit more plain because I knew I had busy stuff around it." " But you don't is the issue." "You really have the biggest open areas of three different elements which really aren't tricked out individually." "It doesn't look like one cohesive thought artistically." "♪" " Kevin." "♪" " I got a lot of problems with this tattoo." "These leaves are very strange." "If you look at them and see the way they're shaded, they look like a taco shell." "Highlighting a bad line with a [bleep] white line next to it is causing you way more harm than good." "You can just see how scratchy and shaky it is, and it just accentuates every little shake you have in your black line." "On the left post there's two balls that connect to the base, and on the right side there are three." "Was that by design?" " No." " There's definitely some problems here." "♪" "It's pretty evident that having the advantage today really was beneficial." "Team Peck excelled, whereas Team Nuñez had some trouble." "Sketchy." "♪" " Overall, I think this thing has that punch right off the bat." "Super clean, super bold." "It has that graphic look." "It's very interesting." " However, the word of the day is detail, and these pillars aren't exactly the same." "Each one is very different." "And if you look at this back pillar, it keeps going to a place which it just wouldn't go to." " Well, it would have, like, some curve going to it if, like..." " Now look at that top of the glass." "The pillar would stop." " I guess I over thought it." " It's lacking details and one major [bleep]-up here." " Is it that major, Dave?" " I think it's pretty major." " Shut the [bleep] up, Sketchy." " You don't think so?" " Eh, I mean, there's so much [bleep] going on." "There's so many elements and stuff like that, I mean, if..." " But it's major in the sense of "this is a detail."" " It's wrong." "♪" " Eric." "♪" " This one shows a lot of struggle from you." " I can see how you tried to warp, you know, the hourglass, but when you warp, you still got to be symmetrical with, like, the lines at the top of the hourglass." "It's just a little bit too warped in different places." " I know there's a lot of [bleep] issues with this tattoo." " There is definitely a struggle, bro." " I hate tattooing when I'm sick." "I spent about an hour changing gloves, and that really killed my time with this." " It's not like you were off to a great start and then lost it in the end." "This thing is jacked from the get-go." "The drawing, the layout, the placement, the shape, the composition, this thing is rough, and it's beat." " It just doesn't look like you." " It's not." "When you feel like [bleep], there's no days off here." " 100% unfinished tattoo." "♪" " Time to determine who had the best tattoo of the day." " For me, the top two of the day are Gian and Ryan." " Nikki's too." " Yeah." " Yeah." " The application is great here." " I like Ryan's tattoo the most." "It's the best tattoo that I've seen today, especially from a detail standpoint." " Gian did a beautiful tattoo." "It's not overloaded with detail, but it's just very smooth." "Ryan showed a lot more detail, a lot more little intricacies." " Not only that, but she's got dark darks, light lights." "I mean, this thing has depth." " For me, it's Ryan." " Von?" " Ryan." " I vote for Ryan as well." "Chris?" " I would actually say Nikki." " The judges have decided that the best tattoo of the day goes to Ryan." "Congratulations." " Thank you." "♪" " All of you must deliberate as the jury of peers and put one artist up for elimination." "One of you is about to pack your machines." "♪" " If they call me down there," "I'm gonna be mad as a mother[bleep]." "You're gonna bring me down here on a good [bleep] tattoo?" "[bleep] you all." " The rest of the house, it's between Kevin and Eric though." " Right." " I want to get better and do a good tattoo." " And I understand that you were sick, but that's neither here nor there." "Like, there's a lot of issues that we all have." "All this extra [bleep] is irrelevant." "Like, it's..." " It's obviously relevant." "It is relevant." " No, it's not." "What's relevant?" "No, we're talking about who has the worst tattoo of the day, pointblank, period." " We about to find the [bleep] out." "♪ [dramatic music]" " So we're here as the jury of peers to determine who had the worst tattoo of the day." " I honestly do believe, Eric, that yours is the worst tattoo of the day." "Saturation, or lack thereof... none of the circles are circles, including the iris of the eye, the green in the eye, the circle around the green." " It's unfinished." " Unfinished or not, I think it may have been applied more technically sound than Kevin's." " So all the lines in this tattoo are clean?" "Just so that we're clear." " They're cleaner than the ones in yours." "Not only is some of the line work wonky, but, like, one side has two balls and one side has three balls." " Dude, you got more detail than Eric, but the detail you do have I don't like." " Eric's sick as a dog." "He didn't finish his tattoo." "It's too big, and it's too much to take on, and you know I love you, but I got to vote your tattoo 'cause you didn't finish." " I'm voting for Kevin." " I would rather wear Kevin's tattoo." "I think it's prettier, but I watched Eric suffer." "It's hard for me not to take his situation into consideration." "♪" " Testing detail today, hourglass designs, how'd they do overall?" " Unfortunately, my entire team just fumbled." "Kelly's tattoo fell flat, and then she didn't take any opportunities to show any depth, any transparency in the hourglass, and just left the back of her design completely undone." " And I feel like she could've did better, especially on a common spot on the body like that." " If we go by worst tat of the day," "Eric's is just unattractive and poorly executed." " That eye is just awful." " If he would've angled it over to the left, he could've had a better time with the warp." " It's just rough." " Eric's obviously in the bottom, but I would say that Kevin is super challenged." " Kevin's tattoo has zero detail." "Not a..." " Zero good detail." " There is no gloss." "There is no texture." " And the beads on the bottom of the pillars are so out of whack." " He tried a whole bunch of stuff without just mastering one particular thing here." " We can all agree, Team Peck off the chopping block for sure?" " My whole team basically [bleep] today." "♪" " It was tough." " I think what's even harder is figuring out who the hell the third person is." " There's always two that you're sure of, and there's that third." "It's always the tricky." "♪" " All right, guys, who did the jury of peers vote to put up for elimination?" "♪" " The jury of peers has decided to put Eric up for elimination." "♪" " All right." "We're gonna see Eric, Kevin, and Kelly." "We'll see all of you downstairs." "♪" " I'm not surprised." "They gave me a harsh critique." "Here we are." " Should we go?" "♪" " Today you were being tested on detail." "Based on your work, one of you will close shop." "Let's hear from the jury of peers." "Guys, why did you vote Eric to the bottom?" " It was unfinished." " I understand the tattoo's unfinished." "I had a really [bleep] day." "Regardless, I had to tattoo." "Got in my head." " What exactly is unfinished about this tattoo?" " All of the wood grain, the glass." "If I wouldn't have had the issues I'd had," "I would've finished the tattoo, and I wouldn't be here." " I made a case for you, Sketchy, last week, and I'm making a case for Eric this week." "There's some areas in here where you really do shine with your texture." "Inside the eye there is texture." "In the wood grain there is texture." " But look at that outline on the top of this thing." "I know." "It's bad." " Definitely looks like you had a hard day." "You know, it's a competition, and that's... sometimes it's just part of it." "You know, you got to overcome." "♪" " Kevin, I think that at first glance this tattoo has some appeal to it, but there's a lot of amateur mistakes in this tattoo that stand out really strong." " The glass doesn't look like glass." "It looks like two picture bubbles." "There is not one crisp detail throughout this tattoo." " Like, it doesn't really look like a bad tattoo until you get into it." "It's just a lot of mistakes." "That's why you're down here." "♪" " Kelly, how you feeling right now?" " I don't deserve to be here." "I'm not asking you." "I am telling you." "I am a great [bleep] tattooer." " The reason you're down here is because of the unfinished looking tattoo." " I know that I fell short, but I gave you a good [bleep] tattoo." " Even with the unfinished aspects in the product, your layout on paper was not a strong plan to set you up for a win, and for me," "100% you deserve to be in the bottom." "♪" " Judges, time to determine who is going home." " For me, it's between Eric and Kevin." " I think Kevin's a good artist, but as far as being able to adapt and grow, I really want to see Eric stay on my team." " Do you think technically my tattoo is worse than Eric's?" " I would rather get tattooed by Eric than you." " If you looked at those two tattoos without knowing who did them, there's no way that anybody is gonna say that Eric's is more technically done." " But there is detail in the eye." "There's detail in the sand." "There's detail in the wood, and Eric is a better tattooer than you." " But today... but... but wait." "But wait." " Can't be her." "It's a fact." " Whose fact?" "'Cause it's not mine." " It's a fact when it comes to this competition." "He can finish..." " Well, if that was a fact, then he wouldn't have done a worse tattoo than me today." "I'm on your team, and you're not even... but that's neither here nor there." " It's not about that because at the end of the day, there is no teams." " Well, it says "Nuñez" at my station." " It does, but all three of you are on my team." "♪" "There's nothing I can do." "♪" " We got to vote who's going home." "Oliver." " Worse tat of the day, for me, 100%..." "I'm sorry, man... is Eric." "♪" " Final decision?" " Kevin." " Von?" " Eric had the worst tattoo of the day." " My vote is for Eric as well." "♪" "The judges have decided, Eric, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." "♪" " Worst tat of the day, guys." "Everybody be prepared." " It's like any given Sunday for me." "We see it week in and week out in the league." "You know, teams get beat that shouldn't get beat." "You know, if it was another day, if it was another hour, maybe it could be a different three up there, but today it was Eric." "This point, this day, these tattoos." " Please pack your machines and close shop." "♪" " Well, I was not ready to go home today." "Just wasn't my [bleep] day." "I got sick, and I didn't perform the way" "I normally perform." "I let my team down." "I let my coach down, and I'm going home for it." "♪ announcer:" "On the next episode of "Ink Master"..." " We are about to make these boys look like fools." "Vengeance will be had." " Today you're in big trouble." " I'm gonna do what the [bleep] I want to do." " I'm gonna gun for you right back." " It's gonna be thrilling." " If you're not in the top three, you're in the bottom." " I don't like to make excuses." " You got to pull out all the stops." " I've had enough of this bull[bleep]." " This is a tipping point, man." "Everybody, like, cracks about this point." "You got a chance to [bleep] do it." " Psh." "Bull[bleep], man." "♪" " Nobody had a clue about this?" " Nobody." " No." " Not even a little bit." " No." "♪ [rock music]" "♪"