- All right, guys, you have six hours to show
contrast tattooing a monochromatic portrait,
and your time starts now.
- Let's do this. - All right.
I'm gonna grab what I need real fast.
- So I'm gonna place the stencil on you standing up,
so don't lay down just yet.
- Portrait day in the "Ink Master" house
has always been an atrocity.
Today, we're looking for that to change.
- Oh, he's gonna put it on the thigh?
He's not even gonna put it on the butt.
I knew he was gonna cop out.
- This could be tricky, because these artists will be
able to use only one color for contrast on these tattoos.
- Some of the detail is gonna get so flying away,
because you put blue against it, you're not gonna see them.
- This is the top five.
Anyone could potentially edge you out.
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- That's gonna be black, dude.
- Well, what's gonna be my darkest tone, though?
- I would not go navy blue.
- Yeah, I know, but you-- - I would go this blue.
- I'm the last person on Steve's team.
I feel, like, obligated to take his advice at this point.
- That is super dark.
- But Steve is just fighting me
on everything that I feel is right.
I can use this blue and that blue.
- No, you can't. You're wrong.
I may be down to one artist,
but now I don't have any more weak links.
All my focus can be on Roly.
You only get one blue, and if you put that dark blue
next to that black, dude, it's gonna be all black.
- I'm going against my instinct,
and I'm going with what Steve is telling me to do,
but I'm just wondering if I'm doing the right thing.
- This is my day to show off,
and I just shot myself in the foot.
So I'm kind of referencing this in this picture
and seeing where I put my black to be, like,
in this kind of, like, darker area, the dark red.
I just want to make sure that's correct.
- I mean, that's the only way I see it.
If that's all you can use right there,
then that's the only way.
- I'm hitting the challenge, but it still doesn't take away
from the fact that this photo
is blurry and wonky, and so is my tattoo.
I could be screwed.
- All right, guys. Five more hours to go.
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- Jason, because the photo is out of focus,
I would sharpen it up to clean it up.
- I'm doing everything I can to make sure my artists
I have now are standing with me at the finale.
Look at the shapes, look at the shadows
they're making of the hair, and then texture out the hair.
- But it's not like that in the picture..
- Jason's whole reference photo is blurry,
so it's gonna be really, really difficult to pull features
from the photo to his tattoo.
- I just--I'm afraid to add something to a picture
that isn't there and get called out for it.
In my opinion, if you're doing a portrait
tattoo based off of a photo,
I feel like that you need
to most accurately represent that photo.
When you tell me those things, it just makes me worry that
people are making comments, and it's not--
- No, I'm just--I'm being nitpicky myself.
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It's interesting to see who's gonna take the artistic liberty
and tattoo it how it should be represented as opposed to,
like, "Oh, it's muddy in the photo, so it's muddy
on the tattoo."
It's just like, "No."
- Well, you have to. Like Deanna's.
Deanna's doesn't have hair, so you can't put hair--no way.
- It's a likeness. It should be apples to apples.
- It has to look like the photo.
- Yeah, I would think so.
- If it's an old photo and it's muddy,
you have to do that muddy of a skin.
- I'm on the other side with that.
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- I'm stoked about how this thing's gonna look.
It's gonna be ridiculous.
My goal is to make my picture look like a black
and gray portrait of Oliver run through a red filter.
That's what monochromatic means.
Everyone else's looks like a normal portrait,
just shaded with kind of the wrong color.
- Everything you have right here in this mustache...
- Yeah. - If you line that with a three
or something, it's done for you.
- Yep, and then just shade off it.
That's the plan.
I'm gonna knock this out of the park
and make this a landslide victory.
- Two more hours.
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- I got a handful of things in my head
that I'm debating on what I'm gonna do.
- You could do what you're gonna do
instead of what everybody else is doing.
- No, I'm already going totally different
[inaudible] on this.
- With only five artists left,
my biggest competition is still Josh.
- I'm gonna go a little more graphic style with it
with the monochromatic.
I think that's the best play to give it the best look.
- Let's see. I don't know.
Josh thinks he won this thing.
He thinks he's the best, but I'm the one to beat here.
My piece is gonna be bulletproof.
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- As far as portrait day,
likenesses are pretty much on point.
- Yeah. - Deanna and Jason
have the hardest ones--
hers, out-of-focus photo,
and his is, like, whitewashed.
- I think for me, the bottom right now, honestly, is Roly's.
It's not keeping up with the rest of the tricks.
- There could be no more Team Steve.
- That's true.
This is a tricky game, man.
You never know how it's gonna end.
- It's getting to be tricky. - It is.
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- Five, four, three, two, one.
That's it. Machines down.
Time is up. No more ink.
- All done.
- Feeling good, and you're all done.
- I'll clean you up, and then we can check it out, all right?
- It's literally him.
- Absolutely amazing. Couldn't ask for better.
Thanks again. - Yep. No prob, man.
- No problem.
- Oh, [bleep]! It's killer, man.
- Yeah. [laughs]
- It's beautiful. - Thank you.
- Deanna's tattoo has really shocked me.
- Hopefully you win.
One step closer. - I know.
- I know how well she does portraits, and for her to drop
the ball on a tattoo when she
had skull pick is kind of a big deal.
- Well, good luck. - Thank you.
- Good luck later. - Thank you.
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