- Okay, artists, you have six hours to tattoo
Zeus or Hades.
And your time starts now.
[clapping] - Get them, team!
- All right. - All right.
- First and foremost, get that stencil on.
- Okay. - Then we will rock and roll.
- Today we're testing proportion.
- Are you going to do more stuff right here?
- I'm just focusing on this for the timeframe.
- The proportions have to be on.
The dimensions between two eyes, a nose, a mouth.
The structure of the face, the shape or size of the body,
all have to be perfect.
- Ahh.
Judges for a day, huh?
- Got to weed them out. Only the strong survive.
- Yeah.
- Good luck. - You too, bud.
- Ready to rock and roll? - Yes.
♪ ♪
- Should be all right. - I'm going to say one thing.
I did like the dopest tattoo of the [bleep] day,
and I couldn't win because of direction.
They wanted it facing out on the forearm.
They look at it when your arm's down.
If they don't see the head or something
when your arm's down, you know what I'm saying?
- You think I should flip it? - Yeah.
- All right, let me clean this off.
I don't want to go home for that [bleep],
so thanks, coach.
- You can draw, and you're a badass artist.
So with that being said, that is a statue of Hercules.
- I used the wrong reference.
- Add some horns. - Some horns?
- We need to sell that presence of underworld.
- I'm worried Anthony already has a notion in his mind
that I'm going to be the weakest link.
I've got to make sure that he sees what I can do,
and wants to keep me around.
- Super nice, dude. - Thank you.
I've been underestimated my entire life.
I know what I'm capable of. I know what I'm here to do.
If they want to sleep on me, let them.
- That's smooth, man. - Thank you, buddy.
- You have four hours remaining.
[dramatic music]
- That is probably
the cleanest tattoo in this room.
- I want to keep it simple so you can see that.
My strategy at this point is survival.
I don't tattoo bodies. I don't usually tattoo flames.
I'm going to do more of a fade with the ones in the front.
I'm keeping them super light. - I like it.
- Having to do something
that's so outside of my comfort zone
is really, really hard.
- DJ's making the call.
I have to make sure everything's perfect.
- Is he going to be glowing from behind?
Or is there, like, clouds, or is there going to be like--
- It's definitely going to be lighter,
because I want this to be
the darkest part of the whole thing.
I came into this team because
I wanted to be around the best artists,
and now I have to compete against my own teammates.
I have to beat all of them now.
- You see like, this shape under the nose?
- I haven't tattooed this style of tattooing
in almost ten years.
- And the side of that nostril
almost V's on both.
You see, you have this like this.
- Oh, okay, okay, okay.
DJ's helped me throughout this whole tattoo.
I'm feeling pretty confident
that I'm going to hit the challenge.
[dramatic music]
- How we doing?
- Getting nervous, getting nervous.
I'm not as confident as I should be in this tattoo.
This background is starting to get away from me a little bit.
DJ's hardly around,
because he's hovering over the rest of the team so much.
I'm nervous, but I trust my coach.
I've got four beautiful boys and a beautiful wife.
They're giving up a lot for me to be here.
My wife is a teacher.
While she's at school, I'm at home.
Daddy day care all the way.
I have to tattoo at night, but we make it work.
I need to do whatever it takes for me to be able to stay.
- Final hour, this is your final hour.
[dramatic music]
- Right now, I'm super confident in Zeus' face,
So I'm going to add the Pegasus.
- Just make sure that it doesn't look like two pieces
when it's done, you know?
- Oh, yeah.
Steve hit me with a curveball,
and I'm going to make him eat his words.
- I looked at everybody else's,
and at least I'm doing something different.
I'm not feeling crazy confident,
but I know that I'm really good at color.
So the best thing I can do is just make sure
that my tattoo is technically sound.
- Jason's is weird, but I like it.
- I like it, too; it's clean. - It is clean!
But it's about proportion. - Proportion, yeah.
- The eyes that are drawn, he made it up.
You can't say those are right.
- But it comes down to this.
You guys are sending the ones home you want.
But at the end of the day, you make the choice.
[dramatic music]
- Five,
four,
three,
two,
one.
That's it, machines down. Time is up, no more ink.
- We made it.
[dramatic music]
-No [bleep] way. I love it.
- Yeah, I'm stoked on how it came out.
- It's amazing.
- That looks awesome.
- Yeah, I'm super happy with that.
- Did you end up doing the Pegasus?
- Yeah.
- A big old head, and a tiny ass horse.
How is that proportional?
- I know that you don't see things around you
because you're blinded by your own beauty,
but there's stuff in the background in life.
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