- Welcome.
Only six artists remain.
Half of you will earn a spot in the finale.
But only one of you will earn $100,000,
a feature in "Inked" magazine, and the title of Ink Master.
- This week, there is no flash challenge.
- Oh, [bleep].
- We are moving directly into the next elimination tattoo.
- Pressure's on.
- Today, we're testing...
finesse.
- Finesse?
- I like that.
- Finesse is something to achieve only
with experience and practice.
It's precision, it's smoothness, it's all
the abilities you have to make the tattoo perfect quality.
- To earn the title of Ink Master,
it's not enough to just master the basics.
No one knows this better than your coaches.
Every time the coaches tattoo,
they prove exactly why they are in a league of their own.
Now, it's your turn to prove that you have the skills to
compete at their elite level.
For this elimination tattoo,
you must step up your game and match your coach.
- Oh my God.
- Coaches, you must each create
a line drawing that you and the artists on your team
will tattoo on separate canvases at the same time,
giving a true head-to-head comparison.
- What?
- Trying to match someone as talented as DJ is going to be
really, really difficult.
- I already don't like that.
- There's so much pressure right now.
I have to take everything that
I've learned from this competition,
and everything I've learned from
DJ, and put it into whatever this tattoo's going to be,
and do it up to the level at which he can compete.
- Coaches, the style and subject
are completely up to you.
- You will have no input from your team,
but your design decisions can make or break them.
- [bleep], man.
- This is a true head to head comparison.
You will only have the line drawing that your
coach gives you to go from.
When it's go time, you have the stencil, you put it on.
Your design is done, and you are ready to go.
- Coaches, today, show us why you're coaches.
Do not hold back on your drawings,
or I'm going to wring the
[bleep] out of you about it.
This is up to you to produce a bad-ass six-hour tattoo.
Treat it like it's your hundred grand.
- Yeah.
- Artists, fail to match the master, and
you will be up for elimination.
- How are we going to match our
master when he's doing the drawing?
He's going to understand it.
He's going to know where to shade.
He's going to know where to put the details.
You're basically coming into it blind.
- Coaches, remember. Strategy is key.
- Every artist from your team
that you lead to the finale earns you the power to call
a shot in the master face-off for $100,000.
Your canvases are open and have been randomly assigned.
You will have six hours to complete your tattoo.
All right, guys. Head to the loft while your coaches design.
- Kill it, man. - Kill it.
- This is a tricky challenge for the coaches.
They want to be competitive
against the other coaches, but they also want to do something
that everybody on their team will be able to excel with.
Because in the end, the coaches don't want
to lose their players. - What you thinking?
- I'm going to do something that they can just look at and
[bleep] know exactly.
- Do you think that's gonna push your team at all?
I'm doing, I morph.
That's what I'm gonna do.
Shows a little bit of everything.
You can't pull off a face? - Yeah.
- [bleep] time for them to figure it out.
- I'm doing illustrative Hannya.
I'm gonna have to pull lines on this one.
- Then Josh might be a little
nervous over that one himself, bro.
- I can see you guys getting a [bleep]
curveball, because Steve's chaos, man.
- I don't think Steve is worried about his drawing.
He knows Roly and I could
tattoo anything that's given to us.
- I think that sentence started out half-true.
I think Steve knows that Roly can pull this tattoo off.
- I'll do anything he gives me, and I'll kill it.
- Why do you assume you're gonna kill it if he
hands it to you?
- Because I kill any tattoo.
- We've been waiting to see that.
- I don't have to prove anything to you.
- I think we're at the point in this house that you actually
probably do have to prove it. - No I don't.
I don't have to prove anything to you guys here.
- Well, I think so.
- I understand why you're nervous,
because you guys know I can do any tattoo that's given to me.
- There's not a person in this house nervous about you.
- I understand why you're coming at me, because you
guys know you could go home.
- Everybody feels lucky, because they know that there's
somebody in this house that's definitely gonna drop the ball,
and they're gonna be the ones that go home.
- What's Jeremy gonna do, man?
- Add spaceships and [bleep]? I don't know.
- What's he gonna do? He's gonna not have excuses.
- Once you do your blacks, they can shade any way they want to.
What do you think, bro?
- It's gonna be crazy, dude. [bleep]
- I think my boys are gonna [bleep], but oh well.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- So, you guys ready?
- Yes, sir. Yeah.
- Dude. - Awesome.
- I wanted to pick something that I would have
fun with today, and you guys can do it how you want.
- Nice, man. I like that.
- Yeah, dude, I'm [bleep] excited.
This line drawing is exactly what I expected Anthony to do.
It's a very simple and readable design.
I'm gonna match Anthony's quality and finesse,
but I'm definitely gonna give it my own flair.
- I knew it.
- You don't seem excited, bro.
- Huh? - You don't seem excited.
- No, yeah, yeah, I'm just-- Honestly, I'm
ready to smack Steve right now.
It's a girl's face morphed into
a skull, with, like, a little demon head off the back side.
Who else knows how to do this but him?
Bro, congratulations. You [bleep]ed us here.
- Just have fun, [bleep] it.
- Have you seen what they have to tattoo?
- No. - Roly is mad right now.
- That's okay. Because you know somebody's
going home, and it's probably not us.
♪ ♪
- Let the madness begin.
- Hi, I'm Deanna.
- Hi, nice to meet you.
- Coaches and artists, you have six hours to prove
that you can match the master. And your time starts now.
♪ ♪
- Let's do this.
- I'm gonna place the stencil on you standing up.
- So far, the divide has been huge, coaches versus teammates.
Today, we're looking for that divide to close up.
- That's cool.
- If you've made it to this section of the competition,
you should be able to do anything that comes your way.
- Let's get it.
- Anthony, I'm going to advise you to do it on the other
forearm, because it's looking the wrong way right now.
Because when you're standing like this,
you're going to see the face, not the back of the hair.
- It's going the other way.
- I'm hoping somebody can outshine their coach.
That would be refreshing.
No matter what happens,
it's gonna pan out to be a dogfight
all the way to the end.
- Learning, dude. It's good.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Let's look at these first.
- Afternoon, sir. - What's going on, man?
- Big, bold and clean.
I figured I've shown you guys every other style.
I haven't shown you Japanese yet.
He did that, so I was like,
I'm gonna keep it pretty straight up.
If it was just me standing alone, it'd be one thing.
But I have to match DJ.
The pressure is so much higher.
I've done a [bleep]load of Hannya masks.
I know what they look like.
I'm adding a few extra lines in the hair.
I really hope that this doesn't count
as a knock against me,
but I just feel it needs a little bit more fullness to it.
We'll see if it was the right choice or not.
- We will.
- How you feeling?
- Good. - He's doing great.
I have no idea how to do the Hannya mask.
I should do some Japanese traditional coloring, but I
don't know how to do that.
So I'm just going to make sure
that the color is saturated
and that the line work is solid.
- Four hours to go, people. Four more hours.
♪ ♪
- Four more hours?
- Four, yeah. You getting sore?
- Yeah.
- How you holding up, boss?
- Well... - Not good?
- Eh. [chuckling]
- I'd probably tap out if I was you. Just walk.
- Yeah, well, I can't do that.
I've done that before. - (laughs)
- My canvas is already showing
signs that he's in a lot of discomfort.
The one thing that I know I
could pass Anthony up in is my color.
I just have a lot of work to do.
I do not need this to happen right now.
I may have to go to black and grey.
- Really? Why?
- I don't think he's gonna make it through color.
- Oh, he's fading? - I'm not kidding.
- Oh, [bleep], brother.
- Because if I start color
and he taps, I'm [bleep]ed.
With Anthony doing color on his tattoo and me having
to switch direction on mine, I don't know if it's gonna meet
up with his level.
[suspenseful music]
- Awesome, you're doing great. - Thanks, man.
- Sucks for Jason, better for me.
I feel this is the most perfect
tattoo I've done in the competition so far.
If anyone's gonna match Anthony today, it's gonna be me.
Anthony has underestimated me in the past, so this is my
chance to prove him that I can be an Ink Master.
♪ ♪
- How you feeling?
- I'm feeling real good about this one.
- Getting that inner Tefft?
- Yeah.
I have to tattoo this weird-ass
design that Steve made, but you know what?
I'm gonna kill it. I'm gonna show finesse by
adding my style and still making it match Steve's.
I want to make the tongue
in the demon flow through the design.
I want to make the tears of the
woman dripping through the whole thing.
Because that way I can show off more of what I can do.
♪ ♪
- Roly.
- I'm gonna fight Steve tonight.
- I think you should.
- This is probably the worst
day that I've had this whole competition.
Steve's design doesn't cater to his team at all.
Is the chin supposed to connect to the skull?
Like, is there no chin?
Does it melt into the skull?
I'm having a hard time, but I've got to stay focused,
apply this tattoo well, and just hope it stacks up
to what Steve does.
- Um...
Good.
Yeah. Yeah.
- Five, four, three,
two, one.
That's it. Machines down. Time is up. No more ink.
- I was kind of nervous, but-- - Dude, that's dope.
- Man, you did a [bleep] good job.
- That thing is tough.
- Yeah.
- Good job, man. Jason, so you just kept it black work?
- Yeah. - [bleep] yeah.
- Yeah. - How did you do?
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- Good, simple.
- I mean, all three of them ended solid and clean,
and bright as [bleep], so.
and bright as [bl- Nice.o.
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