- Okay, artists, you have six hours to tattoo
a technicolor hot air balloon...
and your time... starts... now!
- Let's do this. - Have a seat.
- We're looking for a lot of detail.
That's the name of the game today.
- Maybe just a little...
- If you do that, it would kind of swing.
- Hot air balloons are vivid. They are bright.
There's not a very soft-looking
hot air balloon that flies around.
- You're just gonna freehand them in?
- Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm gonna draw them first.
- Cool.
- Without those things in place,
these things are gonna look like a hot mess.
- All right, buddy. Are you ready?
- Always.
[intense music]
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- I'm terrified right now because
my canvas has tissue paper skin,
which means that every line I do is almost a blowout.
You're doing amazing, and I really appreciate it.
This impacts everything, because I have to go
twice as slow.
Oh, boy.
- Need anything, brother?
- Gonna try and pull out as much detail as I can in here.
- Bro, I really loved your first design.
I loved it.
- It was not, if you add [inaudible]
in the basket and give me some rope lines.
That thing's dope.
I love the sun, I love the moon.
- This is the first time ever in my entire career
that I cannot come up with a design that I feel good about.
- What's wrong with that? - It's all wrong, bro.
It's not right at all.
- Make the balloon bigger.
- I had never tattooed someone that hated the design.
I take pride in my work, you know,
so if I don't feel the design, I'm not gonna tattoo it.
- Right now, I feel like quitting.
I hate the design this much.
♪ ♪
- Five hours remaining. Five more hours.
[dramatic music]
- Fame.
- There's no way he's gonna have time.
♪ ♪
- I'm super happy that Steve's team is in trouble,
because I'm pissed at Roly right now.
He gave me the rib tattoo.
- He's on the tricky spot.
- When you put a design on the ribs
and then they lay down, it gets really big,
so you're having to do twice the amount of work.
I wanted to go detailed, but it's on the ribs,
so I think it's better to make sure
we get a tattoo done and it's clean.
- Three hours remaining. Three more hours.
♪ ♪
- Frank, daddy.
- I am taking a huge risk today.
- [bleep], you didn't run from that armpit, huh?
- Nope. - Not at all.
- In tattooing an armpit, you run the risk
of overworking the skin,
because the armpit swells really fast.
The big bright color is gonna be the yellow.
- I mean, it's pretty bright.
- Right now, I'm putting all my eggs
in one acorn-shaped basket,
and I'm hoping this takes off.
- I was gonna do a dark brown.
- But just make sure, over here, it's black.
- Okay.
Today, I'm not playing it safe.
I think it's time for me
to show everybody what I'm made of.
- Are you putting color here? - Yep.
I just was gonna save it for last
'cause it'll be the lightest.
- Perfect. Okay.
- I know a lot of color theory.
I'm going completely off of my own head on this one
and not using any kind of reference.
I'm just creating it as I go-- it's a big risk,
but I think that I can pull this one off.
♪ ♪
- I felt like stuff was going better
before people started coloring.
- They're making bad choices.
Why did Amanda go with all teal?
Looks like a baby rattle.
I better see some color coming out of Daniel's hand,
or he's [bleep].
- He creates so much work for himself in the lines.
- Three circles, not 300. We're over it.
We know you can do it. Okay. Fine.
Call it a [bleep] day already.
♪ ♪
- I love the ambition,
but you gotta be smart about [bleep], dude.
- With doing as much detail as I did in my tattoo,
it needs to be big.
What's next?
- Use your liner and just bop, bop, bop, bop, bop.
- Oh, on the rope, yeah. - Yeah.
- At this point, I bit off more than I can chew.
♪ ♪
- You gotta finish all these colors, and--
- Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna use a smaller needle
to get in there.
I'm feeling really good about my tattoo,
but I am worried about the risks I took on it.
- Finish the balloons, make those bulletproof,
'cause that's our main focus.
- These tiny micro-balloons I'm doing
took a lot more time than I thought,
so it really ate up the majority of my time,
so now I'm rushing at the end to get this frame down.
- Make sure that thing is bulletproof.
You know what I'm saying?
- Time. Time. - One minute.
- People know I'm a black-and-gray artist,
so they're just waiting for me to [bleep] this up.
- Like that red solid.
Get up to that line. There you go.
- There's no way I'm gonna saturate it
and compete with the best in the room.
♪ ♪
I'm trying to breathe.
- This is the home stretch.
- Five... - Nerve-racking.
- Four... - Jesus.
- Three... two...
- Cutting it real close.
- One. That's it.
Machines down. Time's up. No more ink.
- Can I get, like, ten more minutes?
Come on.
- All right, let's hop up and take a look.
- That's pretty awesome. - Stoked?
- Yeah. I love it.
- It's pretty clear that Roly hit Team DJ super hard,
and we all pulled off great tattoos.
You can't shake us.
We're not going anywhere.
- Hey, Josh, you better start packing up your [bleep].
- [laughs] - You're [bleep] going home.
- You were rushing harder than I was through that tattoo.
- Your tattoo is a [bleep] whale.
- When have you ever seen a balloon
made out of 8,000 pearls?
If you'd spend more time tattooing,
less time fixing your [bleep] hair,
you might not have been on speed control
till the end of that thing.
- That's probably why you finish your tattoos
so fast-- you don't even got any hair!
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