Ink Master: Grudge Match (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 2 - Targeted - full transcript
It's predator versus prey when two epic Ink Master feuds come to a head. Angel Rose fights back against her season eleven thorn Jimmy Snaz. Season ten's Sparks returns to burn competitor ...
male announcer: In 12
jaw-dropping seasons
of "Ink Master,"
we've witnessed
amazing artists,
insane rivalries,
and wild personalities.
- Any [bleep] camera
follows me,
I swear to God,
I don't even give a [bleep].
I will break
that mother[bleep].
announcer: Now, three
iconic Ink Master champions,
Ryan Ashley, DJ Tambe,
and Cleen Rock One,
have risen to judge status,
deciding grudges
between some
of the competition's
most furious rivals.
- You gonna hash it out like
grown men,
or are you gonna
get in my face again?
- Let's tattoo!
announcer: These foes
will have the opportunity
to settle the score,
once and for all.
- I'm gonna be in your face.
- I'm gonna be in your face.
- Guys, guys, guys, guys,
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
I don't think
that grudge is over.
I think it just got worse.
announcer:
Tonight, two epic feuds
will come to a head.
It's predators versus prey,
and the grudges
will be settled now.
In our first grudge match,
season 11's Angel Rose
was targeted and sent home
by Jimmy Snaz.
- You said on my best day,
I couldn't do a tattoo
as good as you did on that day.
- I didn't go home.
You did.
- You were lucky you stayed.
announcer: And now
she's looking to prove
her superiority.
- You might have to do
American traditional tomorrow.
- I'm not worried about that.
- We'll see.
♪ ♪
- All right, this is
a tough one for me,
because I have
an emotional connection
to Jimmy.
He was on my team, and Angel,
I mean, she was on
an opposite team.
She was the first pick
on season 11
to get into the house.
We targeted her
and sent her home.
- You're one of the best
competitors in the house.
- To, like, have artists
in the house
looking at me and saying
that, like, it's
the ugliest tattoo in the room,
and like, hearing it
from you guys is even harder.
- I don't think Angel
could've done
that tattoo on her best day.
My tattoo shows issues,
but it shows experience.
- You can't draw a wolf
and a forest, man.
- You can't draw a background.
That ship was just
cut and paste.
- I can draw a background.
- Come on!
- Mother[bleep], I will draw
backgrounds around you all day.
- Guys, we've got to make
a decision here.
- At least I know that
that's a ship.
I look at Jimmy's, and
there's a lot of question
as to whether or not
that's even water.
- The judges have decided.
Angel, you do not have
what it takes to be Ink Master.
- Man, this is gonna be
a tough fight.
- I'm excited.
- They're two totally different
artists, too,
you know what I mean?
like style-wise, what they do.
- Totally.
I mean, polar opposite artists.
- Yeah, this grudge needs
to get settled.
- Jimmy and Team Cleen were all
intimidated by me,
only because I can do
a lot of things
that I think their team
struggles with.
- How many appointments
do you have this month?
- Like seven.
Seven appointments.
- Seven?
That's pretty good.
That's pretty good.
You just moved here.
Yeah, dude.
Once I left "Ink Master,"
I finally had
the opportunity
to own my own shop,
and going through all this
makes me feel
like I can take on anything.
I dealt with a lot of shit
from Team Cleen
and from Jimmy himself.
Winning this grudge match
would feel so good for me
to finally shut them up.
[rock music]
♪ ♪
- This looks sweet.
- Yeah, just painting
just for fun.
I don't know
what Angel's problem is.
What does she want with me?
I'm just over here killing it.
- Bro, this looks sick.
- It's fashion, bro.
Look it up.
I mean, obviously, she's still
a little bit bitter,
but it's like,
be mad at yourself.
You went home.
I'm going in this grudge match
really just competing
with myself.
I'm not worried
about what Angel's doing.
Coming in, just trying
to be chill, remain calm,
and to keep my focus.
♪ ♪
Daddy's home.
- Hey-oh!
- Oh, there he is.
He does not disappoint,
does he?
- Was that an actual flag
that he just shrunk and--
- Brilliant.
- Oh, here we go.
- Jimmy Snaz.
- Hey, what's up, nature-scape?
- Oh!
- Ready to go head to head
with someone
with three years
of experience?
- I'm so terrified.
- Dude, she's still pissed.
- Hope you've been practicing.
- I know exactly what
I did wrong,
whereas I'm not sure
if you knew
even why you went down there,
or if you even admit
that you should've been
down there.
- I didn't go home.
You did.
- You said on my best day,
I couldn't do a tattoo
as good
as you did on that day.
You're right.
I would do it
way better than that.
Because what happened
on my best day?
I beat all of you guys.
- I didn't realize she
was so feisty.
- I've heard enough of it,
and just want to get in there.
- Let's get in there.
- Let's go.
- Ah, you got a lucky shot.
That's it.
- I got lucky? You got lucky.
You stayed.
- I don't know.
I wouldn't call that luck.
- Whoo, hey, guys.
- What's up, what's up?
- Hey.
- Got some baggage
brought with you.
- Yeah, and Jimmy brought
his pants.
- Well, the pants
don't disappoint,
first and foremost.
- This is gonna be so fun.
I'm trying not to take any
emotional attachments.
I'm gonna leave my heart
out of this,
and I'm gonna judge
the best tattoos possible.
- I appreciate that, Cleen.
- I expect nothing less.
- Whole different day,
whole different time.
- Yeah, there's no teams
anymore, guys.
- No teams, no coaches.
- Just me and you.
- Yeah.
This needs to be squashed.
We want to make the playing
field as even as possible.
So we're gonna give you guys
a 90-minute face-off tattoo
where we determine
what it's gonna be.
- Great.
- Ah, sick.
- But whoever wins
today's face-off
is going to have
an advantage,
because that person
gets to choose
either the style
or the subject
of tomorrow's six-hour
grudge match tattoo.
- I got it.
- Winner of the grudge match
settles the score and ends this
once and for all.
- All right, then.
- What have we got?
- What should we have them do
for this face-off?
- Well, let's go back to this
original grudge.
How did this whole thing start?
Nature-scapes, right?
- Nature scape, yes.
- They had some problems
with some wonky-ass
animals, right?
- Yeah.
- Let's do a fish.
- Goldfish.
- Goldfish.
- I like goldfish.
- Color.
- Is that gonna give Jimmy
the advantage
over Angel, though,
'cause he's more
of a color artist than she is?
- But--
- It doesn't have to be color.
That's not fair.
He does color, she doesn't.
- Okay, okay, okay. So--
- All right, all right, yeah.
- Let them choose.
- Calm down.
- As a black-and-gray artist,
it is--
- You're too tall.
Shrink a little
when you're talking to me.
- As a black-and-gray artist,
it is a disadvantage
being assigned color.
- Okay, right, I get it now.
- God!
- Okay, so, 90 minutes,
any kind of goldfish,
any color.
- I'm ready, you?
- Yeah.
- Ding, ding,
mother[bleep] ding.
- Angel's [inaudible].
Holy shit.
- Let's get it.
- Good luck, guys.
- Yeah, get to work.
- See you in a bit.
- All right.
- You excited
for this goldfish, Jimmy?
- Yeah. How often do you do
90-minute tattoos?
- Oh, never.
If you--
- Well, I wouldn't want you
to bite off
more than you can chew.
I'm cool with that.
- Just don't do a cracker.
You might lose.
[dramatic music]
announcer:
In our second grudge,
season ten's Jason Elliott
attacked
the vulnerable Sparks.
- I just came
to [bleep] prove you wrong.
- Prove me wrong about what?
- You said I was too sensitive.
- You're like the bitch
of season ten.
- [laughs] I like this dude.
announcer:
And now, Sparks is back
to prove his worth.
- Your biggest mistake was
assuming that I can't draw.
- Oh, I mean, I know you can,
but not well.
♪ ♪
- Jason and Sparks battling it
out.
On my season,
when I was a coach,
Sparks was on my team.
Jason--he liked to get
into everyone's head.
He liked, always liked
to play the game.
- I think
it's personal bullshit.
We're here to tattoo,
not be best friends.
- You got a weak personality
that caves easy,
so when they give you advice,
all you do is
just [bleep] turn inward.
- I don't think my tattoo's
the worst of the day.
- You were due from the start.
It was already a sinking ship.
- Sparks wants to come back
and prove himself.
- Put up or shut up, dude.
If you've got a beef,
we'll settle it.
Let's go.
[rock music]
- I wasn't
really expecting Jason
to attack my character
and come after me
the way he did.
I just want to
put his dick in the dirt.
I want to prove to everybody,
my old coach,
my old competitors,
"Hey, I do bad-ass tattoos,
and I want to prove it
to the world."
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- My main focus
going into the competition
was to scope out
everybody that was there,
find out their strengths
and weaknesses,
and play the game
that way.
- Wack.
Actually, that's pretty good.
It's not bad.
- It's not bad.
In a competition,
the biggest part
is having mental strength,
and Sparks just didn't show up
with any.
All right, I'm gonna
go ahead and make one.
So if he's gonna call me out
for a grudge match,
he better make sure
that this time,
he comes
with a lot thicker skin.
[dramatic music]
Oh, shit. This is nostalgic.
- There he is.
- He looks
like a picnic spread.
- I think we're about
to [bleep]
some shit up in here.
- You can just look at Jason
and tell
that he has something
that he wants to put
in your back.
- What?
- Like a knife.
Like--I mean, he's always
thinking about the--
- He looks
like he's going to a picnic.
- When the [bleep] is
Mr. Sensitive getting in here?
I ain't got all day
for this shit.
- Well, if it isn't
the heartless wonder.
- Oh, look at that.
Mr. Shipwreck.
- Man.
Did you find a soul,
or you still using baby tears
in your rinse cup?
- What does that even mean?
- He practiced that one.
- Does that work?
- I just came to [bleep] prove
you wrong.
You said I was too sensitive.
- Bro, listen, you're like
the bitch of season ten.
- [laughs]
I like this dude.
- I wasn't a bitch.
I just had
[bleep] outsider stress,
and I let it get to me.
- I give no [bleep]s
about that.
You're either gonna do
a good tattoo,
or you take your ass home,
and that's what happened.
You took your ass home.
You were a sinking ship
from the beginning.
- Look, man, I get it.
The easiest way I can do this
is just put up and shut up,
and then earn your respect.
- Sparks seems pretty calm.
Almost seems like Jason's
not getting into his head
this time, you know?
Put all that aside and just--
- I don't know.
- Nah, looks like he was
getting in his head
pretty good.
- I'm gonna say that as well.
Let's go find out.
- All right, let's just--
let's do this.
- I just hope you left that
sympathetic shit at home
and just brought skill.
- That's what the [bleep]
I came here to do, man.
I just have to beat your ass.
- Enough
with the mouth running.
What's going on
between you guys?
- He's a sensitive bitch.
I can't have a bitch
representing Texas.
This can't happen.
We're not a bitch state.
- No, that's true.
We're a state with heart,
and you have none.
- I'm happy you're back,
Sparks,
and I know you're
a solid tattooer.
Jason--he gets in your head
like some fly,
you know,
and you're just like, ugh!
- Did you [bleep] with him?
- Yeah, I [bleep]ed with him.
I thought he was weak.
I mean, he was weak,
'cause his ass went home.
- That's why I'm back here,
to just shut you
the [bleep] up.
- So here's
what we're gonna do.
We're gonna give you guys
an even playing field
with a 90-minute
face-off tattoo.
We get to choose what you guys
are gonna do.
- Tight.
- [scoffs]
- This dude does big shit
all day.
I know he's nervous.
- I'm ready to do any tattoo.
I just--I just want to see
this guy do a good tattoo.
Let's--just one.
- Hopefully, you guys
come out swinging,
because whoever wins
this face-off tattoo
gets the advantage
of choosing either the style
or the subject matter
of tomorrow's six-hour
grudge match tattoo.
- The winner of that grudge
match tattoo
ends all this,
shuts the traps.
- So what do you want me
to pick?
- I like that. I like that.
Confidence. Yeah.
- Hey, that's confidence.
Confidence.
- I know he's nervous,
so we're good.
- Sounds like we got a grudge.
I like it.
What are we gonna do?
- This all started
over, you know, mental warfare.
Let's do little brains.
- So--
- So, 90-minute brain tattoos.
- 90 minute brain tattoos.
- I'm into that.
Any style you want.
- Got it.
- Use them brains.
Don't come with half of one...
Use your brains.
- Today.
- Oh, man.
- Do you hear that, man?
They want you to do
a clean, good tattoo.
How you feeling about that?
- Small.
Are you gonna be able
to do something small?
- I think maybe
you should just do
a brain and a question mark,
because you're probably
clueless.
- What?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- All right, Angel and Jimmy.
You guys have 90 minutes
to tattoo a goldfish
in any style.
Hopefully, neither of you flop.
Your face-off starts now.
- Stencil time.
- Ready to party, Angel?
- Oh, yeah.
- Me and Angel--we couldn't be
more polar opposite.
She does
black-and-gray realism,
I do
solid traditional tattoos.
My experience is what's gonna
allow me to excel
in this 90-minute challenge,
'cause I know what
I can get done in 90 minutes.
I work in a street shop.
It's bangers, bangers,
bangers, all day.
Just try to keep it cohesive.
I don't have a lot of room for
error in a traditional tattoo.
Everything has to be
intentional and on point.
You only get one shot
to make every line count.
♪ ♪
- When they said goldfish,
I was like,
"Man, you've got
to make these cool somehow."
I know
Jimmy's gonna come through
on this tattoo,
so I have to do something
that's impressive
and technical.
Hopefully gonna
have time to finesse it.
There's lots of little folds
and creases in my fish,
and every fin
has texture in it.
These tiny little lines are
hard to do without shaking.
If I pull it off, it's gonna be
really impressive.
♪ ♪
- Swimming along at 60 minutes.
We got 60 minutes, guys.
- How you doing, Angel?
- I'm sweating, dude.
- Sweating?
- Yeah.
- You ain't seen nothing yet.
♪ ♪
- All right, guys.
Ready for this?
Jason, gonna use
your head on this tattoo?
- I'm gonna whoop his ass.
- Sparks, ready to turn
sparks to flame?
- Hell, yeah, dude.
- Your 90 minute face-off
tattoos
of brains starts right now.
[energetic music]
- Perfect.
- What do you think?
- Sweet.
- Rodeo started.
- I don't know what Sparks
is thinking, calling me out.
I almost made it to the finale.
He didn't even get
a participation award.
- So make sure
it's your best tattoo ever.
- Always got to make sure it's
your best tattoo.
I've got a lot of elements
in this tattoo.
I've got the light bulb,
I got the face,
I got the brain, and I've got
a little activity
outside the brain.
I just want to get in there
and do, like,
really subtle grays
where the brain is actually
behind in the bulb.
Maybe I'm pushing the limits
a little bit for 90 minutes,
but no matter what,
I'm gonna whoop Sparks' ass.
Just keep
it simple, and legible.
- You've only got 60 minutes
left on your face-off tattoo.
♪ ♪
- My design's basically
a brain
in the shape of a heart.
I think with my heart.
It also has
an all-seeing eye
in the center,
because I see through
this mental warfare bullshit
that Jason's
just tossing around.
- What made you come back?
- I just didn't get to prove
what I wanted to last time.
I let emotion get in control
instead of just kicking back
and doing fun tattoos.
This guy has no idea
what's coming for him.
I have a clear head,
so I'm coming full force
this time.
Somebody's got
to put Jason in his place.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- 30 frickin' minutes left.
You kidding me?
♪ ♪
- That looks very, very, very
complicated and detailed.
- I came in.
I was talking a lot of shit.
I got to win
this first tattoo
so I don't look
like a dumbass.
But 90 minutes?
I never work
in that kind
of time constraint.
I might have bit off
more than I could chew.
- 15 minutes, guys.
15 minutes
to tighten these brains up.
- We're almost done.
- It is much harder
to do a 1 1/2 hour tattoo
than a 6-hour tattoo.
♪ ♪
- Five, four, three, two, one.
Stop tattooing.
- Nuts.
- It's sick.
- You sat like a champ.
I'm really, really stoked
on it.
- It looks like gum.
But hey, you know--
- It's not supposed
to just say brain.
- You know what?
It's a cool piece of gum.
- Thanks, tater tot.
- Is that like sugar-free gum?
- Oh, Jesus.
- Who chewed it, though?
- All right, let's do this.
- Come on down.
- How we feeling?
- 90 minutes goes real quick.
- Mind over matter, though,
huh?
- For a piece of chewing gum,
I thought it looked, uh--
I thought it looked great.
I mean, you know,
I didn't see a brain.
- Sparks, I enjoy
the creativity,
right off the gate.
- I mean, honestly for me,
with the exact texture
and everything you used,
it looks like
the small and large intestine,
just hanging there
like a sack.
- I was kind of worried
about that, yeah.
- Yeah.
I do love
that you used
this really rich purple
to give this undertone
to the pink brain.
In terms of color theory,
that was really cool,
because it looks really nice
with all of the cool tones
that you use.
Overall, it's a fun tattoo.
- Thank you.
That's high praise.
Thank you.
- Yeah.
You know, Jason, the tattoo
that you presented was
the polar opposite of Sparks,
a really interesting concept
and design.
- I think the time
just got to you on this.
- Yeah.
- The way you whipped
in the face,
you know, I can really see
your whips
changing directions
a lot.
- But you do have
some real nice techniques
down at the bottom.
The screw-in part
of the bulb, that's shaded,
You know, it gives it
a nice metal effect.
I really like the artistry
that you put into this.
- Thanks, thanks.
- I don't think
either of these guys made it
easy for us to decide this.
- No way.
- One's color, one's not.
One looks like a brain heart,
the other one looks
like a brain face.
- Jason had a lot
of great things happening,
but had this mag mark
straight horizontal
across the upper lip
that looked like a mustache.
- I think Sparks has
a little more punch.
- Is Sparks' really a brain,
or was it not?
It was a lot of questions
for me.
My vote's for Jason.
- Jason, I love the direction
you went with this.
Sparks, your tattoo
is wild and crazy.
Honestly, I think one edged out
just a little bit more
than the other for me...
and that one is Sparks.
My vote is for Sparks.
- I was kind of on the fence,
and now I'm really
on the fence.
Artistically, I love
the fact
that you guys both took jabs
at each other
with these designs.
[dramatic music]
My vote's for Sparks.
- Holy shit.
- Whoa.
Honestly, that just
threw me for a loop.
- [bleep]
I was not expecting that.
- You know, technical tattooing
is something that I hold dear,
and Sparks just nudged him out
a little bit.
- You know what that means.
You just won the advantage
of being able to choose
either the style
or the subject matter
for tomorrow's six-hour
grudge match tattoo.
- I'm nervous about him
and this--
no matter what I throw
at him, six hours.
- He likes the play the game.
Now it's your turn.
You got the advantage, bro.
- Oh, man.
Illustrative.
Anything drawn.
Just not tracing and pasting.
- A hand-drawn tattoo.
- Hand-drawn tattoos.
- Trying to put myself
in the best position.
I can draw my ass off.
Let's hope my tattoos
can keep up.
- I think that's pretty fair,
drawer versus drawer,
tattooer versus tattooer.
I think that's
the best way to settle it.
- Could be fun.
- Hell, yeah.
Get to work.
- Good luck.
- Thank you.
- One of my favorite challenges
if someone calls--
- If you're an illustrator.
- You should be. You should be.
You should be.
- Yeah, that, on that note--
- Is Jason an illustrator?
- I don't know.
- We'll find out.
- What made you want
to pick illustrative?
- Haven't really seen you draw
much,
so I wanted to see
what you got.
- I think your biggest mistake
was assuming that I can't draw.
- Oh, I mean, I know you can,
but not well.
- The best I can do is just
tell you thank you, man,
because you're about to unleash
a monster.
Pencil versus pad,
you're gonna get dominated.
[rock music]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- What's up, bro?
- That's a Jimmy Snaz tattoo
right there.
- Yeah, it is.
- I was curious
how you
were gonna do it, man.
- I'm just glad it wasn't
a nature-scape.
- Oh, it almost was.
Yeah.
♪ ♪
- This is going by
pretty quick.
- Do you usually do
90-minute tattoos?
- Nope.
- Me neither, I can't--
- I have a four-hour minimum.
- I have a 12-hour minimum.
- Yes. [laughs]
♪ ♪
- I hope these fish can swim,
because you've got 30 minutes
to get upstream.
30 minutes.
♪ ♪
- I think I'm doing good
on time.
- I love Jimmy's tattoo.
That shit is solid.
Those lines are in there.
- Yeah. Man, yeah.
- Single pass, perfect.
Man, he slammed
that shit in there.
- It's probably going to be
a bulletproof tattoo.
- But Angel's
not disappointing either.
- I know.
That little fish is so cute.
- So awesome, dude.
They're both so good.
I don't know.
- Just trying to make it solid.
- Five, four, three, two, one.
Time's up! Put 'em down.
- You did great.
- Oh, I love it.
- Look how cute.
- You like it?
- Yeah, he's a cool dude.
- Cool dudes only.
- [laughs] Thank you.
♪ ♪
- What do you think?
- I feel like mine was
more goldfish.
- That goldfish was solid.
I'm happy with it.
- But was it a goldfish?
- Of course it was a goldfish.
- Yes, but--
- You can't argue that they're
not goldfish.
That's it.
See what the judges say.
- Okay, we'll see, then.
- You might have to do
American traditional tomorrow.
- I'm not worried about that.
- We'll see.
- We'll see.
- All right, guys.
- What up, what up?
- Man, 90-minute fish tattoos.
- That was a rush.
- Yeah, you said any style,
so I mean, I went with it.
Just, you know,
tried to do my thing.
- Obviously, with what you guys
turned in today,
your styles
couldn't be any more different.
- Oh my God.
I knew what you guys turned in
was what,
exactly I was gonna see.
- I liked Angel's a lot.
It's a super-clean,
solid tattoo.
I mean, you can't say
there's a lack of black
in there anywhere.
- The line work that you put
into that tattoo is solid.
- All the little tiny fins
worked out great.
I, personally, I think
a smaller line weight
would've been my choice.
- I like the difference
between the thick
and the thin lines,
and the contrast
between the two.
- I wish there was
more smaller lines
in the fins.
- Same.
- And that's just a style
preference, personally.
- That makes sense.
- Jimmy, your tattoo
was also really solid.
- Those outlines are in there.
It has that weight.
It has everything
that you'd think
a traditional tattoo--I mean,
you pull that style off
better than anybody.
- There were some issues
on some of the fins
where you whip-shaded.
The saturation between
the black and the red
wasn't in there as good
as it could've been.
Other than that, man,
this is nitpicking.
You guys killed it.
- Yeah, this is--I mean--
- Yeah, you guys
both did amazing tattoos.
- Guys, this is gonna be
a tough one.
- Jimmy's color choice
was great.
- Yeah, but Angel put in
so much ingenuity as well.
- Little tiny--
- Did you see those eyes,
all the detail on those eyes?
- I did.
I did.
♪ ♪
- I got to pick Angel.
I like
how clean it is.
- Awesome.
♪ ♪
- I loved Angel's tattoo,
and I think
it's [bleep] bulletproof.
When I look at Jimmy's tattoo,
I can see the complexity
in the simplicity.
I'm gonna pick Jimmy.
- Cool.
- All right, so you guys
are leaving me
with the hard job, here.
- One for Jimmy, one for Angel.
- Compositionally, you guys
both nailed it.
Design-wise,
with your creativity, equal.
All of the fundamentals
line up,
and everything's pretty even.
I'm going with Angel.
- [bleep] yeah, dude.
- Just a personal choice.
It's all I have left.
- Yeah.
[exhales sharply] All right.
- I respect you guys' decision.
- I think you killed it.
- We both did good tattoos.
- Yeah.
- So, Angel, you won
the face-off tattoo.
This is a huge advantage.
This means you get to pick
the style or subject
for the six-hour
grudge match tattoo
that both of you have to do.
- [sighs] Okay.
- This is a huge decision.
- I think I know
what I'm gonna do,
and I think I'm just gonna
go for it
and have us both do
black-and-gray realism,
because I want to see it.
- Okay.
♪ ♪
- Do you practice this much?
- No.
- That just hurt me for you.
- I would've done the same
to her, you know?
I mean, we really are
polar opposites.
That advantage was everything.
- Honestly, that's
what makes this a great battle.
- Give it my best shot.
- All right, guys,
well, get to work.
♪ ♪
We are gonna see some
crazy tattoos tomorrow.
- Black-and-gray realism, huh?
- I'm sorry, Jimmy.
- What are you sorry for?
You here to win?
- Yeah.
- That's what I like to hear,
because so am I.
I'm gonna put
everything I have into it.
- You better.
♪ ♪
- All right, Jason, Sparks,
I hope you guys
used your brains
on this illustrative tattoo.
- Oh, yeah, I'm [bleep] ready.
- You have six hours,
and your time starts now!
- Slow and steady
wins the race.
- Jason and Sparks have to do
illustrative.
I love that style.
You got to draw it
from scratch,
create it from your own mind.
That, to me, is true artistry.
- Let's get the party started.
♪ ♪
- I chose illustrative,
because I can draw,
and I know
Jason has a rough time
with pencil and paper.
I'm coming for you, dude.
- Sparks is a [bleep] idiot.
There's nothing that he can do
that I'm not capable
of doing better.
- Ooh.
You bugging out today?
- I am bugging out today.
- Yeah?
I like doing bug tattoos,
mostly because there's a lot
of different textures in them.
- Do you feel good
about illustrative in general?
- I don't do it.
Really, I do portraits now.
I used to.
When I first started tattooing,
I did stuff like this,
and I think that's why Sparks
called me out
for not drawing, you know?
- Probably.
I mean, it's
a pretty good game play.
- But he's [bleep] stupid
if he thinks I can't draw.
I kind of excel
at everything that I do.
Won pool trophies,
dart trophies,
shuffleboard trophies.
- You came to play.
- I came to win.
Sparks is gonna
come at me as hard as he can,
but this is the winning tattoo.
♪ ♪
This thing's so clean,
looks like I'm tattooing
with dish soap over here.
- Yeah, my mouth
doesn't do tattoos,
so I'm just gonna
keep doing this
and stop talking to you.
- Doesn't look like your hand
does tattoos, either.
♪ ♪
- Angel and Jimmy,
are you guys ready
to get this grudge match going?
both: Yeah.
- Angel, you called
black-and-gray realism.
You guys have six hours
to complete
this grudge match tattoo,
and your time starts now!
♪ ♪
- Perfect.
- Jimmy better be ducking
and weaving,
because Angel's throwing
everything she's got at him
with this
black-and-gray tattoo.
- Awesome.
I'm doing a realistic
black-and-gray horse.
It's gonna look
like he's coming at you,
he's actually
coming off of the skin.
It's really gonna show off
my best tricks,
and the attention to detail
in this is gonna be perfect.
- Ready?
- Yeah, let's do it.
- All right.
- This is what she does
every day.
She's gonna knock him out!
♪ ♪
- Black-and-gray realism
is not my strong suit,
so going into this tattoo,
I just have to play it smart.
I want to make sure
that I can show off texture,
and something that
looks and feels lifelike.
- You do a lot of this stuff?
- No.
I set up like 19 machines...
- Yeah, I'm looking at it.
You have--
- Because I was stressed out.
Sometimes you find yourself
in a different situation
that you're not used
to being in.
In life, you need to adapt,
and that's what I'm doing
with this tattoo.
- Why, what happens
if I do it this way?
Do I win?
- No. [laughs]
♪ ♪
- You guys got
three hours left.
Halfway, speed it up.
- What do you think?
- I'm super surprised
right now with Jimmy.
- What I was expecting
from him
and what that tattoo's
looking like right now--
two completely different
artists.
- I'm pretty impressed.
Over to Angel,
her horse looks great.
- It looks great,
but she's got to pump
the contrast on that thing.
- She's gonna put a background
on it,
but she doesn't seem
to have started
the background yet.
- She still has time
to finish it,
and Jimmy still has time
to [bleep] it up.
- [laughs]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- How'd you come up
with this idea?
- Honestly, I've never done
a dragon claw before,
and figured, well, why not?
My design is a dragon claw,
but I want it to look
really gnarly.
So, it's got armor
plating on it,
and it's ripped off.
If this is my one chance
to come back
and prove I got it,
then I might as well
do something big and powerful.
Losing isn't an option.
I have too much on the line
to prove,
and show what I can
really do.
- All right, we are officially
at the halfway point.
Three hours down,
three hours remain.
♪ ♪
- That clock's ticking away,
and my main focus is to just
make sure everything is
as smooth and flowy
as possible
while hauling ass
through this thing.
- Oh, your canvas over there
is thinking,
damn, I got
the wrong [bleep] guy.
Broken dragon leg,
broken tattoo.
- I would be more focused
on finishing your shit.
- I'm almost done, actually.
Look at him, he's scared.
- I'm not an idiot.
- He thought about it, though.
He was like, is he--
is he [bleep]
with me right now?
♪ ♪
[dramatic rock music]
♪ ♪
- What's up, Angel,
you outlining
over there?
[laughs]
- You know, for once
you're not outlining.
- I'm not.
- All right, guys,
get to cranking.
60 frickin' minutes.
♪ ♪
- 12 years of tattooing doesn't
mean shit right now.
Because in this competition,
you get thrown
the stuff that you're never
gonna get thrown
in your everyday,
comfortable life
with your appointments
and whatever.
So, there's no way
that I'm comfortable.
I have a lot to prove here.
Home stretch, bro.
- We can do it.
[suspenseful rock music]
♪ ♪
- Almost there.
- Aww.
I'm changing course,
because I want there to be
a ton of contrast
in my tattoo.
I want it to have a punch.
I want it to have weight.
I want you to be able to
see it from across the room.
- You changed the photo, you
changed from your reference?
- Mm-hmm. Yeah.
- Yeah.
- As a tattooer, you have to be
able to think on the fly.
Sometimes, you make an image
that you think's gonna work
perfectly,
and it's not always
the best way to do it.
So, you have to be able to, you
know, compensate a little bit.
- You still gonna put that
background in behind the mane?
- Not as much.
- On the fly choices, smart.
♪ ♪
- All right, guys, you've got
five, four,
three, two, one.
That's it, guys.
Put your machines down.
- Guess what?
- All set?
- Yeah, man.
- I feel good.
I love this thing.
- I had faith in you
the whole time, don't worry.
Yeah, killed it.
- Whoo. Cool.
- Wow, that looks really good.
- You sat like a beast.
- I'm impressed.
- You're impressed?
- Yeah, dude.
I wanted it to be close.
It would suck if you just
lost, like, really badly.
- Well, I wasn't gonna let
that happen.
Look, I'll be honest.
I was nervous.
- You did say on my best day,
I couldn't beat you.
So, I gave myself my best day
I possibly could
so that we could put
that hypothesis to the test.
- [laughs]
- The stakes are high
for Angel,
because she did have
the advantage.
She chose her specialty.
- Yeah.
- And Jimmy's coming into
this, you know, blindsided,
trying to do a tattoo
that he doesn't ever do
in his normal life.
- It's a totally different
beast.
- It's like driving a semi
truck, or driving a motorcycle.
- I mean, this is a hell
of a battle, dude.
- Yes.
- And I'm stoked
to see how it ends up.
- Hey, guys.
- Crushers, crushers
in the room.
- Obviously you guys are here
because there's some beef
between the two of you.
So, we're about to settle
the score.
Whoever wins this grudge match
ends it all, guys.
- Angel, you did awesome.
- Killer tattoo.
- The knowledge that you
showed of light source
and shading
when you shaded that horse,
that's one of the most
difficult things to tattoo.
When I look at that horse,
I know that it's running,
I know the muscles
that are being used.
- But I feel like you still
need to pull
some contrast into there.
- All it needed was
a little bit of background.
- Yeah, I totally hear you
on that.
I was like, if I have
to do all that blending,
it's going to eat up
so much time.
- But I think you wanted to put
that contrast in,
so you pulled your liner out,
and you defined the mane
as it flowed,
and the tail, because
they were the most crisp.
Your eye immediately goes
to those two elements
that were supposed to be
in the background.
- Right, yeah. I mean, I like
the darkness of it,
but it's so...
- Totally.
But if it's the most
defined thing...
- It's so defined.
- It messes with focus.
- I liked her tattoo.
You know?
I mean, I can definitely tell
that's her strong suit.
- Angel, what do you think
about Jimmy's?
- I'm honestly
really impressed,
because it's Jimmy, but--
[laughter]
- Thank you.
- In a good way.
- I was his damn coach,
I'm surprised as shit.
- We played on her turf,
but I feel like I gave her
a good fight.
- I couldn't believe
you did this, man.
- Thank you.
- Honestly, I would give you--
should I give you
a standing applause?
Truly, you didn't
come into this tattoo
as a traditional tattooer
attempting black-and-gray
realism,
you did this tattoo as a
black-and-gray realism artist.
The technique
that you came out with,
the texture of the hair,
the way you tattooed.
- Super soft.
It just literally looked like
you could pet it.
- Where you lost it
for me a little bit
was the neck fur.
It's almost like
you have all this dope fur
that you could brush and pet,
and then it goes
in spaghetti hair, you know?
- I just wanted to show
different textures.
- I look at that different
hair, and I immediately think,
oh, yeah, he's got
a long bottom mane.
- If you pull some
of those long hairs down,
and didn't end it like a box,
you would've got
the illusion of fur more.
- I'm kind of on the fence.
My biggest thing is,
when I look at Jimmy's tattoo,
at first glance, it looks
like a real-ass cat.
The one thing that kills me
with Angel's tattoo
is just the mane,
the hard line around the edge.
- But if I may, I mean,
the sharpest part of Jimmy's
is the cat's neck.
The point that should be
the sharpest should be,
you know, the most important
features, the nose, the eyes.
I'm just saying,
if I'm gonna get
railed for that,
I'm gonna point that out.
- Yeah.
- Absolutely.
- I'm gonna vote.
- I'm ready.
♪ ♪
[suspenseful music]
- Being
a black-and-gray artist,
I think you both
did an amazing job.
Angel, you gave us a tattoo
that was executed beautifully.
So much knowledge
and technical ability
went into that.
But I'm going with Jimmy.
You shocked the hell
out of me, dude.
- [bleep].
- I'm--I'm gonna go for...
old rattlesnake pants
over here.
- Shit.
- I really like the texture
in the fur.
- Thank you.
- I'm gonna choose Jimmy.
- Thank you.
- Unanimous, dude.
- Jimmy, congratulations.
You surprised the hell out
of all of us.
♪ ♪
- I feel pretty good.
- Pretty good.
- I mean, you could be a
smartass all you want, but--
- No. [laughs]
- You know, I'm proud of you,
the fact that it was so close.
I'm proud to be a part
of that, you know?
- Two winners in my book.
- Honestly, yeah.
- Yeah. And the grudge is over.
- You're good?
- Yeah.
- Aww.
- Thank you.
- You did good.
- Jimmy versus Jimmy,
he had a great outing today.
But Jimmy versus Angel
is another story.
I don't necessarily think
that it should've gone the way
that it went,
but you win.
I'm not gonna say shit anymore.
- Hug me even though
you don't want to.
- [bleep] You did so good.
You did so good.
[dramatic rock music]
♪ ♪
- Everything you guys have
to prove,
you better show us now.
It's the final hour.
♪ ♪
- Well, it's decent.
I mean, there's no pop.
But I'm sure
it's gonna be there.
- This dude will not shut up.
But I'm just gonna let you
keep talking,
because everything's
coming out
how I need it to right now.
I feel like I'm slowly just
inching past him.
- [gasps] Whoa.
Holy shit.
You guys are gonna make it
seriously tough for us today.
You guys are both crushing it.
♪ ♪
I absolutely love Sparks'
tattoo.
- It works.
- Totally.
- Like, the [bleep]
with the claws, bro.
- Yeah.
- It was rad.
- Jason's is so dope.
- Jason's is rad, too.
I know. The color blends,
holy shit. It's so clean.
Dude, it's solid.
- Everything's solid.
- How are we gonna choose?
- I know. We're gonna have
to just roll some dice.
- I'm down with that.
I like rolling dice.
♪ ♪
- All right, guys,
I'm counting it down.
Five, four, three,
two, one.
That's it, this grudge match
is over.
- Sweet, all done.
- Wow, it's [bleep] awesome.
- This is the best bug
that's ever been done
in this competition.
- All right, man.
- Awesome.
- Yeah, it looks sick.
- Pretty stoked, dude.
- It's not bad.
- No, it's not.
- It's pretty clean, but it's
not a [bleep] winner.
- This dude can [bleep] off,
like, I'm pumped.
- Couple of anatomical errors.
- It's not anatomical, dragons
don't exist, home dawg.
- I'm proud of you, man.
You came in here
and you gave it, like,
a good effort with no excuses.
- That was the [bleep] point.
I'm trying to show you
that I can do
a [bleep] clean-ass tattoo.
- Congrats for taking second.
- Oh, you mother[bleep].
- Oh.
- Both these Texas boys
showed up and they danced,
I mean,
they did some awesome tattoos.
- Hardcore, man.
Sparks really tried to stomp
Jason with
his illustrative style.
- As much as Jason runs
his mouth, he backs it up.
- Hey, guys.
- There we go.
Clearly you guys
have been going back and forth,
who's the biggest rooster
in the henhouse,
and we're here to end this.
- Well, let's get into it.
- Jason, I don't think that
this illustrative challenge
fazed you at all.
This beetle is super bad-ass.
I really like the little
jewels you got in there,
right on his back.
A lot of good detail.
You can tell that it's got
that nice little shine to it,
it's got a different texture
than the rest of it.
- All your line work's
super good.
All the lines in the legs
are really crispy.
You're a smooth applicator.
- Overall, the colors play
beautifully against each other.
The perfect amount
of contrast and hue.
The real shining moment was
the really bright, beautiful
seafoam teal color.
That specific color is
a really hard color
to saturate so solid
and so consistently,
and you nailed it.
That being said, I feel like
some of the black could've been
more saturated.
The black that Sparks achieved
was so rich and deep and dark.
- You did a super solid tattoo.
It's really bold
and in your face.
You got a lot
of good tricks in this thing.
You use this heavy, bold line
work around the claws
where they come out at you,
and then inside of all that
thick line work, you use
some thin lines,
and really play
with your line weights.
- Your color play
was super awesome.
I love how you used
this really weird,
sort of boogery strange green
in the claws,
and then you brought that same
green back into the armor,
into all of the little
nail heads up
the entire seam
of the armor.
That play was
really smart.
- If you look at his,
because he didn't pull enough
reds up to the top,
I think that your eyes
are pulled either down
or up,
but you don't read
the whole thing.
And I think a good tattoo
is something
that you should look at
and see the entire tattoo.
- I want the person's eye
to travel from the tip
of that fingernail to the last
shred of skin coming off.
Like, I want their eyes to
flow through the whole thing.
- So, you want the person's eye
to look at the best part,
and not pay attention
to the top part.
- I just said, flow through
the whole thing.
- I feel like I did
a better tattoo.
Mine's got more tricks,
it's got more details,
it's got better blends.
- But I do feel like your image
was very, like, symmetrical,
let me draw one side
and copy it.
- And that makes it harder,
a symmetrical image is harder.
- No, symmetry's easy.
- It's a race, and you can't
win it with one leg.
- Both you guys
did solid tattoos.
But one of you guys
has to win, like--
- Yeah, drawing for drawing,
I love both of these things.
The color play on both
of these is amazing.
- They both killed it on the
line work.
Jason, I love your design.
I love how refreshing
it was.
Sparks, your tattoo was bold.
It was intentional.
Sparks, my vote is for you.
- Thank you very much.
- I mean, I couldn't find
anything wrong
with either of these.
Sparks, you've got a lot
of really nice blends
in that armor.
Jason, you've got
some really kick-ass effects
that you did with these wings
and with the legs.
Damn. I'm like pulling hairs
here.
♪ ♪
My vote's for Sparks.
- Oh, shit.
- My vote's for Sparks.
- Thank you so much.
- Sparks, you won
the grudge match, bro.
- Thank you very much.
♪ ♪
- Like, if we could've gave
both you guys the win,
I think all of us would've.
- Oh, dude, Jason,
you freakin' crushed it today,
man.
That tattoo was so dope.
- I'm glad that he came
and he did a good tattoo.
- Good shit. Congratulations.
- Yeah.
Here's to settling the score.
- Congrats.
- It's all good, man.
- Hey, you did good, man.
- Honestly, I'm just stoked
I got a shut-out win.
I'm actually really proud
of myself.
- Killer tattoo, super killer.
- Sparks, so proud of you.
- Did Sparks do
a good, solid tattoo? Yes.
Did Sparks do
an amazing tattoo? No.
Mine was definitely better, but
hey, maybe now somebody
will finally remember Sparks.
- Dude, you [bleep] killed it.
- Yeah, you did
a good tattoo, man.
- Congrats, by the way.
- Awesome.
jaw-dropping seasons
of "Ink Master,"
we've witnessed
amazing artists,
insane rivalries,
and wild personalities.
- Any [bleep] camera
follows me,
I swear to God,
I don't even give a [bleep].
I will break
that mother[bleep].
announcer: Now, three
iconic Ink Master champions,
Ryan Ashley, DJ Tambe,
and Cleen Rock One,
have risen to judge status,
deciding grudges
between some
of the competition's
most furious rivals.
- You gonna hash it out like
grown men,
or are you gonna
get in my face again?
- Let's tattoo!
announcer: These foes
will have the opportunity
to settle the score,
once and for all.
- I'm gonna be in your face.
- I'm gonna be in your face.
- Guys, guys, guys, guys,
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
I don't think
that grudge is over.
I think it just got worse.
announcer:
Tonight, two epic feuds
will come to a head.
It's predators versus prey,
and the grudges
will be settled now.
In our first grudge match,
season 11's Angel Rose
was targeted and sent home
by Jimmy Snaz.
- You said on my best day,
I couldn't do a tattoo
as good as you did on that day.
- I didn't go home.
You did.
- You were lucky you stayed.
announcer: And now
she's looking to prove
her superiority.
- You might have to do
American traditional tomorrow.
- I'm not worried about that.
- We'll see.
♪ ♪
- All right, this is
a tough one for me,
because I have
an emotional connection
to Jimmy.
He was on my team, and Angel,
I mean, she was on
an opposite team.
She was the first pick
on season 11
to get into the house.
We targeted her
and sent her home.
- You're one of the best
competitors in the house.
- To, like, have artists
in the house
looking at me and saying
that, like, it's
the ugliest tattoo in the room,
and like, hearing it
from you guys is even harder.
- I don't think Angel
could've done
that tattoo on her best day.
My tattoo shows issues,
but it shows experience.
- You can't draw a wolf
and a forest, man.
- You can't draw a background.
That ship was just
cut and paste.
- I can draw a background.
- Come on!
- Mother[bleep], I will draw
backgrounds around you all day.
- Guys, we've got to make
a decision here.
- At least I know that
that's a ship.
I look at Jimmy's, and
there's a lot of question
as to whether or not
that's even water.
- The judges have decided.
Angel, you do not have
what it takes to be Ink Master.
- Man, this is gonna be
a tough fight.
- I'm excited.
- They're two totally different
artists, too,
you know what I mean?
like style-wise, what they do.
- Totally.
I mean, polar opposite artists.
- Yeah, this grudge needs
to get settled.
- Jimmy and Team Cleen were all
intimidated by me,
only because I can do
a lot of things
that I think their team
struggles with.
- How many appointments
do you have this month?
- Like seven.
Seven appointments.
- Seven?
That's pretty good.
That's pretty good.
You just moved here.
Yeah, dude.
Once I left "Ink Master,"
I finally had
the opportunity
to own my own shop,
and going through all this
makes me feel
like I can take on anything.
I dealt with a lot of shit
from Team Cleen
and from Jimmy himself.
Winning this grudge match
would feel so good for me
to finally shut them up.
[rock music]
♪ ♪
- This looks sweet.
- Yeah, just painting
just for fun.
I don't know
what Angel's problem is.
What does she want with me?
I'm just over here killing it.
- Bro, this looks sick.
- It's fashion, bro.
Look it up.
I mean, obviously, she's still
a little bit bitter,
but it's like,
be mad at yourself.
You went home.
I'm going in this grudge match
really just competing
with myself.
I'm not worried
about what Angel's doing.
Coming in, just trying
to be chill, remain calm,
and to keep my focus.
♪ ♪
Daddy's home.
- Hey-oh!
- Oh, there he is.
He does not disappoint,
does he?
- Was that an actual flag
that he just shrunk and--
- Brilliant.
- Oh, here we go.
- Jimmy Snaz.
- Hey, what's up, nature-scape?
- Oh!
- Ready to go head to head
with someone
with three years
of experience?
- I'm so terrified.
- Dude, she's still pissed.
- Hope you've been practicing.
- I know exactly what
I did wrong,
whereas I'm not sure
if you knew
even why you went down there,
or if you even admit
that you should've been
down there.
- I didn't go home.
You did.
- You said on my best day,
I couldn't do a tattoo
as good
as you did on that day.
You're right.
I would do it
way better than that.
Because what happened
on my best day?
I beat all of you guys.
- I didn't realize she
was so feisty.
- I've heard enough of it,
and just want to get in there.
- Let's get in there.
- Let's go.
- Ah, you got a lucky shot.
That's it.
- I got lucky? You got lucky.
You stayed.
- I don't know.
I wouldn't call that luck.
- Whoo, hey, guys.
- What's up, what's up?
- Hey.
- Got some baggage
brought with you.
- Yeah, and Jimmy brought
his pants.
- Well, the pants
don't disappoint,
first and foremost.
- This is gonna be so fun.
I'm trying not to take any
emotional attachments.
I'm gonna leave my heart
out of this,
and I'm gonna judge
the best tattoos possible.
- I appreciate that, Cleen.
- I expect nothing less.
- Whole different day,
whole different time.
- Yeah, there's no teams
anymore, guys.
- No teams, no coaches.
- Just me and you.
- Yeah.
This needs to be squashed.
We want to make the playing
field as even as possible.
So we're gonna give you guys
a 90-minute face-off tattoo
where we determine
what it's gonna be.
- Great.
- Ah, sick.
- But whoever wins
today's face-off
is going to have
an advantage,
because that person
gets to choose
either the style
or the subject
of tomorrow's six-hour
grudge match tattoo.
- I got it.
- Winner of the grudge match
settles the score and ends this
once and for all.
- All right, then.
- What have we got?
- What should we have them do
for this face-off?
- Well, let's go back to this
original grudge.
How did this whole thing start?
Nature-scapes, right?
- Nature scape, yes.
- They had some problems
with some wonky-ass
animals, right?
- Yeah.
- Let's do a fish.
- Goldfish.
- Goldfish.
- I like goldfish.
- Color.
- Is that gonna give Jimmy
the advantage
over Angel, though,
'cause he's more
of a color artist than she is?
- But--
- It doesn't have to be color.
That's not fair.
He does color, she doesn't.
- Okay, okay, okay. So--
- All right, all right, yeah.
- Let them choose.
- Calm down.
- As a black-and-gray artist,
it is--
- You're too tall.
Shrink a little
when you're talking to me.
- As a black-and-gray artist,
it is a disadvantage
being assigned color.
- Okay, right, I get it now.
- God!
- Okay, so, 90 minutes,
any kind of goldfish,
any color.
- I'm ready, you?
- Yeah.
- Ding, ding,
mother[bleep] ding.
- Angel's [inaudible].
Holy shit.
- Let's get it.
- Good luck, guys.
- Yeah, get to work.
- See you in a bit.
- All right.
- You excited
for this goldfish, Jimmy?
- Yeah. How often do you do
90-minute tattoos?
- Oh, never.
If you--
- Well, I wouldn't want you
to bite off
more than you can chew.
I'm cool with that.
- Just don't do a cracker.
You might lose.
[dramatic music]
announcer:
In our second grudge,
season ten's Jason Elliott
attacked
the vulnerable Sparks.
- I just came
to [bleep] prove you wrong.
- Prove me wrong about what?
- You said I was too sensitive.
- You're like the bitch
of season ten.
- [laughs] I like this dude.
announcer:
And now, Sparks is back
to prove his worth.
- Your biggest mistake was
assuming that I can't draw.
- Oh, I mean, I know you can,
but not well.
♪ ♪
- Jason and Sparks battling it
out.
On my season,
when I was a coach,
Sparks was on my team.
Jason--he liked to get
into everyone's head.
He liked, always liked
to play the game.
- I think
it's personal bullshit.
We're here to tattoo,
not be best friends.
- You got a weak personality
that caves easy,
so when they give you advice,
all you do is
just [bleep] turn inward.
- I don't think my tattoo's
the worst of the day.
- You were due from the start.
It was already a sinking ship.
- Sparks wants to come back
and prove himself.
- Put up or shut up, dude.
If you've got a beef,
we'll settle it.
Let's go.
[rock music]
- I wasn't
really expecting Jason
to attack my character
and come after me
the way he did.
I just want to
put his dick in the dirt.
I want to prove to everybody,
my old coach,
my old competitors,
"Hey, I do bad-ass tattoos,
and I want to prove it
to the world."
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- My main focus
going into the competition
was to scope out
everybody that was there,
find out their strengths
and weaknesses,
and play the game
that way.
- Wack.
Actually, that's pretty good.
It's not bad.
- It's not bad.
In a competition,
the biggest part
is having mental strength,
and Sparks just didn't show up
with any.
All right, I'm gonna
go ahead and make one.
So if he's gonna call me out
for a grudge match,
he better make sure
that this time,
he comes
with a lot thicker skin.
[dramatic music]
Oh, shit. This is nostalgic.
- There he is.
- He looks
like a picnic spread.
- I think we're about
to [bleep]
some shit up in here.
- You can just look at Jason
and tell
that he has something
that he wants to put
in your back.
- What?
- Like a knife.
Like--I mean, he's always
thinking about the--
- He looks
like he's going to a picnic.
- When the [bleep] is
Mr. Sensitive getting in here?
I ain't got all day
for this shit.
- Well, if it isn't
the heartless wonder.
- Oh, look at that.
Mr. Shipwreck.
- Man.
Did you find a soul,
or you still using baby tears
in your rinse cup?
- What does that even mean?
- He practiced that one.
- Does that work?
- I just came to [bleep] prove
you wrong.
You said I was too sensitive.
- Bro, listen, you're like
the bitch of season ten.
- [laughs]
I like this dude.
- I wasn't a bitch.
I just had
[bleep] outsider stress,
and I let it get to me.
- I give no [bleep]s
about that.
You're either gonna do
a good tattoo,
or you take your ass home,
and that's what happened.
You took your ass home.
You were a sinking ship
from the beginning.
- Look, man, I get it.
The easiest way I can do this
is just put up and shut up,
and then earn your respect.
- Sparks seems pretty calm.
Almost seems like Jason's
not getting into his head
this time, you know?
Put all that aside and just--
- I don't know.
- Nah, looks like he was
getting in his head
pretty good.
- I'm gonna say that as well.
Let's go find out.
- All right, let's just--
let's do this.
- I just hope you left that
sympathetic shit at home
and just brought skill.
- That's what the [bleep]
I came here to do, man.
I just have to beat your ass.
- Enough
with the mouth running.
What's going on
between you guys?
- He's a sensitive bitch.
I can't have a bitch
representing Texas.
This can't happen.
We're not a bitch state.
- No, that's true.
We're a state with heart,
and you have none.
- I'm happy you're back,
Sparks,
and I know you're
a solid tattooer.
Jason--he gets in your head
like some fly,
you know,
and you're just like, ugh!
- Did you [bleep] with him?
- Yeah, I [bleep]ed with him.
I thought he was weak.
I mean, he was weak,
'cause his ass went home.
- That's why I'm back here,
to just shut you
the [bleep] up.
- So here's
what we're gonna do.
We're gonna give you guys
an even playing field
with a 90-minute
face-off tattoo.
We get to choose what you guys
are gonna do.
- Tight.
- [scoffs]
- This dude does big shit
all day.
I know he's nervous.
- I'm ready to do any tattoo.
I just--I just want to see
this guy do a good tattoo.
Let's--just one.
- Hopefully, you guys
come out swinging,
because whoever wins
this face-off tattoo
gets the advantage
of choosing either the style
or the subject matter
of tomorrow's six-hour
grudge match tattoo.
- The winner of that grudge
match tattoo
ends all this,
shuts the traps.
- So what do you want me
to pick?
- I like that. I like that.
Confidence. Yeah.
- Hey, that's confidence.
Confidence.
- I know he's nervous,
so we're good.
- Sounds like we got a grudge.
I like it.
What are we gonna do?
- This all started
over, you know, mental warfare.
Let's do little brains.
- So--
- So, 90-minute brain tattoos.
- 90 minute brain tattoos.
- I'm into that.
Any style you want.
- Got it.
- Use them brains.
Don't come with half of one...
Use your brains.
- Today.
- Oh, man.
- Do you hear that, man?
They want you to do
a clean, good tattoo.
How you feeling about that?
- Small.
Are you gonna be able
to do something small?
- I think maybe
you should just do
a brain and a question mark,
because you're probably
clueless.
- What?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- All right, Angel and Jimmy.
You guys have 90 minutes
to tattoo a goldfish
in any style.
Hopefully, neither of you flop.
Your face-off starts now.
- Stencil time.
- Ready to party, Angel?
- Oh, yeah.
- Me and Angel--we couldn't be
more polar opposite.
She does
black-and-gray realism,
I do
solid traditional tattoos.
My experience is what's gonna
allow me to excel
in this 90-minute challenge,
'cause I know what
I can get done in 90 minutes.
I work in a street shop.
It's bangers, bangers,
bangers, all day.
Just try to keep it cohesive.
I don't have a lot of room for
error in a traditional tattoo.
Everything has to be
intentional and on point.
You only get one shot
to make every line count.
♪ ♪
- When they said goldfish,
I was like,
"Man, you've got
to make these cool somehow."
I know
Jimmy's gonna come through
on this tattoo,
so I have to do something
that's impressive
and technical.
Hopefully gonna
have time to finesse it.
There's lots of little folds
and creases in my fish,
and every fin
has texture in it.
These tiny little lines are
hard to do without shaking.
If I pull it off, it's gonna be
really impressive.
♪ ♪
- Swimming along at 60 minutes.
We got 60 minutes, guys.
- How you doing, Angel?
- I'm sweating, dude.
- Sweating?
- Yeah.
- You ain't seen nothing yet.
♪ ♪
- All right, guys.
Ready for this?
Jason, gonna use
your head on this tattoo?
- I'm gonna whoop his ass.
- Sparks, ready to turn
sparks to flame?
- Hell, yeah, dude.
- Your 90 minute face-off
tattoos
of brains starts right now.
[energetic music]
- Perfect.
- What do you think?
- Sweet.
- Rodeo started.
- I don't know what Sparks
is thinking, calling me out.
I almost made it to the finale.
He didn't even get
a participation award.
- So make sure
it's your best tattoo ever.
- Always got to make sure it's
your best tattoo.
I've got a lot of elements
in this tattoo.
I've got the light bulb,
I got the face,
I got the brain, and I've got
a little activity
outside the brain.
I just want to get in there
and do, like,
really subtle grays
where the brain is actually
behind in the bulb.
Maybe I'm pushing the limits
a little bit for 90 minutes,
but no matter what,
I'm gonna whoop Sparks' ass.
Just keep
it simple, and legible.
- You've only got 60 minutes
left on your face-off tattoo.
♪ ♪
- My design's basically
a brain
in the shape of a heart.
I think with my heart.
It also has
an all-seeing eye
in the center,
because I see through
this mental warfare bullshit
that Jason's
just tossing around.
- What made you come back?
- I just didn't get to prove
what I wanted to last time.
I let emotion get in control
instead of just kicking back
and doing fun tattoos.
This guy has no idea
what's coming for him.
I have a clear head,
so I'm coming full force
this time.
Somebody's got
to put Jason in his place.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- 30 frickin' minutes left.
You kidding me?
♪ ♪
- That looks very, very, very
complicated and detailed.
- I came in.
I was talking a lot of shit.
I got to win
this first tattoo
so I don't look
like a dumbass.
But 90 minutes?
I never work
in that kind
of time constraint.
I might have bit off
more than I could chew.
- 15 minutes, guys.
15 minutes
to tighten these brains up.
- We're almost done.
- It is much harder
to do a 1 1/2 hour tattoo
than a 6-hour tattoo.
♪ ♪
- Five, four, three, two, one.
Stop tattooing.
- Nuts.
- It's sick.
- You sat like a champ.
I'm really, really stoked
on it.
- It looks like gum.
But hey, you know--
- It's not supposed
to just say brain.
- You know what?
It's a cool piece of gum.
- Thanks, tater tot.
- Is that like sugar-free gum?
- Oh, Jesus.
- Who chewed it, though?
- All right, let's do this.
- Come on down.
- How we feeling?
- 90 minutes goes real quick.
- Mind over matter, though,
huh?
- For a piece of chewing gum,
I thought it looked, uh--
I thought it looked great.
I mean, you know,
I didn't see a brain.
- Sparks, I enjoy
the creativity,
right off the gate.
- I mean, honestly for me,
with the exact texture
and everything you used,
it looks like
the small and large intestine,
just hanging there
like a sack.
- I was kind of worried
about that, yeah.
- Yeah.
I do love
that you used
this really rich purple
to give this undertone
to the pink brain.
In terms of color theory,
that was really cool,
because it looks really nice
with all of the cool tones
that you use.
Overall, it's a fun tattoo.
- Thank you.
That's high praise.
Thank you.
- Yeah.
You know, Jason, the tattoo
that you presented was
the polar opposite of Sparks,
a really interesting concept
and design.
- I think the time
just got to you on this.
- Yeah.
- The way you whipped
in the face,
you know, I can really see
your whips
changing directions
a lot.
- But you do have
some real nice techniques
down at the bottom.
The screw-in part
of the bulb, that's shaded,
You know, it gives it
a nice metal effect.
I really like the artistry
that you put into this.
- Thanks, thanks.
- I don't think
either of these guys made it
easy for us to decide this.
- No way.
- One's color, one's not.
One looks like a brain heart,
the other one looks
like a brain face.
- Jason had a lot
of great things happening,
but had this mag mark
straight horizontal
across the upper lip
that looked like a mustache.
- I think Sparks has
a little more punch.
- Is Sparks' really a brain,
or was it not?
It was a lot of questions
for me.
My vote's for Jason.
- Jason, I love the direction
you went with this.
Sparks, your tattoo
is wild and crazy.
Honestly, I think one edged out
just a little bit more
than the other for me...
and that one is Sparks.
My vote is for Sparks.
- I was kind of on the fence,
and now I'm really
on the fence.
Artistically, I love
the fact
that you guys both took jabs
at each other
with these designs.
[dramatic music]
My vote's for Sparks.
- Holy shit.
- Whoa.
Honestly, that just
threw me for a loop.
- [bleep]
I was not expecting that.
- You know, technical tattooing
is something that I hold dear,
and Sparks just nudged him out
a little bit.
- You know what that means.
You just won the advantage
of being able to choose
either the style
or the subject matter
for tomorrow's six-hour
grudge match tattoo.
- I'm nervous about him
and this--
no matter what I throw
at him, six hours.
- He likes the play the game.
Now it's your turn.
You got the advantage, bro.
- Oh, man.
Illustrative.
Anything drawn.
Just not tracing and pasting.
- A hand-drawn tattoo.
- Hand-drawn tattoos.
- Trying to put myself
in the best position.
I can draw my ass off.
Let's hope my tattoos
can keep up.
- I think that's pretty fair,
drawer versus drawer,
tattooer versus tattooer.
I think that's
the best way to settle it.
- Could be fun.
- Hell, yeah.
Get to work.
- Good luck.
- Thank you.
- One of my favorite challenges
if someone calls--
- If you're an illustrator.
- You should be. You should be.
You should be.
- Yeah, that, on that note--
- Is Jason an illustrator?
- I don't know.
- We'll find out.
- What made you want
to pick illustrative?
- Haven't really seen you draw
much,
so I wanted to see
what you got.
- I think your biggest mistake
was assuming that I can't draw.
- Oh, I mean, I know you can,
but not well.
- The best I can do is just
tell you thank you, man,
because you're about to unleash
a monster.
Pencil versus pad,
you're gonna get dominated.
[rock music]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- What's up, bro?
- That's a Jimmy Snaz tattoo
right there.
- Yeah, it is.
- I was curious
how you
were gonna do it, man.
- I'm just glad it wasn't
a nature-scape.
- Oh, it almost was.
Yeah.
♪ ♪
- This is going by
pretty quick.
- Do you usually do
90-minute tattoos?
- Nope.
- Me neither, I can't--
- I have a four-hour minimum.
- I have a 12-hour minimum.
- Yes. [laughs]
♪ ♪
- I hope these fish can swim,
because you've got 30 minutes
to get upstream.
30 minutes.
♪ ♪
- I think I'm doing good
on time.
- I love Jimmy's tattoo.
That shit is solid.
Those lines are in there.
- Yeah. Man, yeah.
- Single pass, perfect.
Man, he slammed
that shit in there.
- It's probably going to be
a bulletproof tattoo.
- But Angel's
not disappointing either.
- I know.
That little fish is so cute.
- So awesome, dude.
They're both so good.
I don't know.
- Just trying to make it solid.
- Five, four, three, two, one.
Time's up! Put 'em down.
- You did great.
- Oh, I love it.
- Look how cute.
- You like it?
- Yeah, he's a cool dude.
- Cool dudes only.
- [laughs] Thank you.
♪ ♪
- What do you think?
- I feel like mine was
more goldfish.
- That goldfish was solid.
I'm happy with it.
- But was it a goldfish?
- Of course it was a goldfish.
- Yes, but--
- You can't argue that they're
not goldfish.
That's it.
See what the judges say.
- Okay, we'll see, then.
- You might have to do
American traditional tomorrow.
- I'm not worried about that.
- We'll see.
- We'll see.
- All right, guys.
- What up, what up?
- Man, 90-minute fish tattoos.
- That was a rush.
- Yeah, you said any style,
so I mean, I went with it.
Just, you know,
tried to do my thing.
- Obviously, with what you guys
turned in today,
your styles
couldn't be any more different.
- Oh my God.
I knew what you guys turned in
was what,
exactly I was gonna see.
- I liked Angel's a lot.
It's a super-clean,
solid tattoo.
I mean, you can't say
there's a lack of black
in there anywhere.
- The line work that you put
into that tattoo is solid.
- All the little tiny fins
worked out great.
I, personally, I think
a smaller line weight
would've been my choice.
- I like the difference
between the thick
and the thin lines,
and the contrast
between the two.
- I wish there was
more smaller lines
in the fins.
- Same.
- And that's just a style
preference, personally.
- That makes sense.
- Jimmy, your tattoo
was also really solid.
- Those outlines are in there.
It has that weight.
It has everything
that you'd think
a traditional tattoo--I mean,
you pull that style off
better than anybody.
- There were some issues
on some of the fins
where you whip-shaded.
The saturation between
the black and the red
wasn't in there as good
as it could've been.
Other than that, man,
this is nitpicking.
You guys killed it.
- Yeah, this is--I mean--
- Yeah, you guys
both did amazing tattoos.
- Guys, this is gonna be
a tough one.
- Jimmy's color choice
was great.
- Yeah, but Angel put in
so much ingenuity as well.
- Little tiny--
- Did you see those eyes,
all the detail on those eyes?
- I did.
I did.
♪ ♪
- I got to pick Angel.
I like
how clean it is.
- Awesome.
♪ ♪
- I loved Angel's tattoo,
and I think
it's [bleep] bulletproof.
When I look at Jimmy's tattoo,
I can see the complexity
in the simplicity.
I'm gonna pick Jimmy.
- Cool.
- All right, so you guys
are leaving me
with the hard job, here.
- One for Jimmy, one for Angel.
- Compositionally, you guys
both nailed it.
Design-wise,
with your creativity, equal.
All of the fundamentals
line up,
and everything's pretty even.
I'm going with Angel.
- [bleep] yeah, dude.
- Just a personal choice.
It's all I have left.
- Yeah.
[exhales sharply] All right.
- I respect you guys' decision.
- I think you killed it.
- We both did good tattoos.
- Yeah.
- So, Angel, you won
the face-off tattoo.
This is a huge advantage.
This means you get to pick
the style or subject
for the six-hour
grudge match tattoo
that both of you have to do.
- [sighs] Okay.
- This is a huge decision.
- I think I know
what I'm gonna do,
and I think I'm just gonna
go for it
and have us both do
black-and-gray realism,
because I want to see it.
- Okay.
♪ ♪
- Do you practice this much?
- No.
- That just hurt me for you.
- I would've done the same
to her, you know?
I mean, we really are
polar opposites.
That advantage was everything.
- Honestly, that's
what makes this a great battle.
- Give it my best shot.
- All right, guys,
well, get to work.
♪ ♪
We are gonna see some
crazy tattoos tomorrow.
- Black-and-gray realism, huh?
- I'm sorry, Jimmy.
- What are you sorry for?
You here to win?
- Yeah.
- That's what I like to hear,
because so am I.
I'm gonna put
everything I have into it.
- You better.
♪ ♪
- All right, Jason, Sparks,
I hope you guys
used your brains
on this illustrative tattoo.
- Oh, yeah, I'm [bleep] ready.
- You have six hours,
and your time starts now!
- Slow and steady
wins the race.
- Jason and Sparks have to do
illustrative.
I love that style.
You got to draw it
from scratch,
create it from your own mind.
That, to me, is true artistry.
- Let's get the party started.
♪ ♪
- I chose illustrative,
because I can draw,
and I know
Jason has a rough time
with pencil and paper.
I'm coming for you, dude.
- Sparks is a [bleep] idiot.
There's nothing that he can do
that I'm not capable
of doing better.
- Ooh.
You bugging out today?
- I am bugging out today.
- Yeah?
I like doing bug tattoos,
mostly because there's a lot
of different textures in them.
- Do you feel good
about illustrative in general?
- I don't do it.
Really, I do portraits now.
I used to.
When I first started tattooing,
I did stuff like this,
and I think that's why Sparks
called me out
for not drawing, you know?
- Probably.
I mean, it's
a pretty good game play.
- But he's [bleep] stupid
if he thinks I can't draw.
I kind of excel
at everything that I do.
Won pool trophies,
dart trophies,
shuffleboard trophies.
- You came to play.
- I came to win.
Sparks is gonna
come at me as hard as he can,
but this is the winning tattoo.
♪ ♪
This thing's so clean,
looks like I'm tattooing
with dish soap over here.
- Yeah, my mouth
doesn't do tattoos,
so I'm just gonna
keep doing this
and stop talking to you.
- Doesn't look like your hand
does tattoos, either.
♪ ♪
- Angel and Jimmy,
are you guys ready
to get this grudge match going?
both: Yeah.
- Angel, you called
black-and-gray realism.
You guys have six hours
to complete
this grudge match tattoo,
and your time starts now!
♪ ♪
- Perfect.
- Jimmy better be ducking
and weaving,
because Angel's throwing
everything she's got at him
with this
black-and-gray tattoo.
- Awesome.
I'm doing a realistic
black-and-gray horse.
It's gonna look
like he's coming at you,
he's actually
coming off of the skin.
It's really gonna show off
my best tricks,
and the attention to detail
in this is gonna be perfect.
- Ready?
- Yeah, let's do it.
- All right.
- This is what she does
every day.
She's gonna knock him out!
♪ ♪
- Black-and-gray realism
is not my strong suit,
so going into this tattoo,
I just have to play it smart.
I want to make sure
that I can show off texture,
and something that
looks and feels lifelike.
- You do a lot of this stuff?
- No.
I set up like 19 machines...
- Yeah, I'm looking at it.
You have--
- Because I was stressed out.
Sometimes you find yourself
in a different situation
that you're not used
to being in.
In life, you need to adapt,
and that's what I'm doing
with this tattoo.
- Why, what happens
if I do it this way?
Do I win?
- No. [laughs]
♪ ♪
- You guys got
three hours left.
Halfway, speed it up.
- What do you think?
- I'm super surprised
right now with Jimmy.
- What I was expecting
from him
and what that tattoo's
looking like right now--
two completely different
artists.
- I'm pretty impressed.
Over to Angel,
her horse looks great.
- It looks great,
but she's got to pump
the contrast on that thing.
- She's gonna put a background
on it,
but she doesn't seem
to have started
the background yet.
- She still has time
to finish it,
and Jimmy still has time
to [bleep] it up.
- [laughs]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- How'd you come up
with this idea?
- Honestly, I've never done
a dragon claw before,
and figured, well, why not?
My design is a dragon claw,
but I want it to look
really gnarly.
So, it's got armor
plating on it,
and it's ripped off.
If this is my one chance
to come back
and prove I got it,
then I might as well
do something big and powerful.
Losing isn't an option.
I have too much on the line
to prove,
and show what I can
really do.
- All right, we are officially
at the halfway point.
Three hours down,
three hours remain.
♪ ♪
- That clock's ticking away,
and my main focus is to just
make sure everything is
as smooth and flowy
as possible
while hauling ass
through this thing.
- Oh, your canvas over there
is thinking,
damn, I got
the wrong [bleep] guy.
Broken dragon leg,
broken tattoo.
- I would be more focused
on finishing your shit.
- I'm almost done, actually.
Look at him, he's scared.
- I'm not an idiot.
- He thought about it, though.
He was like, is he--
is he [bleep]
with me right now?
♪ ♪
[dramatic rock music]
♪ ♪
- What's up, Angel,
you outlining
over there?
[laughs]
- You know, for once
you're not outlining.
- I'm not.
- All right, guys,
get to cranking.
60 frickin' minutes.
♪ ♪
- 12 years of tattooing doesn't
mean shit right now.
Because in this competition,
you get thrown
the stuff that you're never
gonna get thrown
in your everyday,
comfortable life
with your appointments
and whatever.
So, there's no way
that I'm comfortable.
I have a lot to prove here.
Home stretch, bro.
- We can do it.
[suspenseful rock music]
♪ ♪
- Almost there.
- Aww.
I'm changing course,
because I want there to be
a ton of contrast
in my tattoo.
I want it to have a punch.
I want it to have weight.
I want you to be able to
see it from across the room.
- You changed the photo, you
changed from your reference?
- Mm-hmm. Yeah.
- Yeah.
- As a tattooer, you have to be
able to think on the fly.
Sometimes, you make an image
that you think's gonna work
perfectly,
and it's not always
the best way to do it.
So, you have to be able to, you
know, compensate a little bit.
- You still gonna put that
background in behind the mane?
- Not as much.
- On the fly choices, smart.
♪ ♪
- All right, guys, you've got
five, four,
three, two, one.
That's it, guys.
Put your machines down.
- Guess what?
- All set?
- Yeah, man.
- I feel good.
I love this thing.
- I had faith in you
the whole time, don't worry.
Yeah, killed it.
- Whoo. Cool.
- Wow, that looks really good.
- You sat like a beast.
- I'm impressed.
- You're impressed?
- Yeah, dude.
I wanted it to be close.
It would suck if you just
lost, like, really badly.
- Well, I wasn't gonna let
that happen.
Look, I'll be honest.
I was nervous.
- You did say on my best day,
I couldn't beat you.
So, I gave myself my best day
I possibly could
so that we could put
that hypothesis to the test.
- [laughs]
- The stakes are high
for Angel,
because she did have
the advantage.
She chose her specialty.
- Yeah.
- And Jimmy's coming into
this, you know, blindsided,
trying to do a tattoo
that he doesn't ever do
in his normal life.
- It's a totally different
beast.
- It's like driving a semi
truck, or driving a motorcycle.
- I mean, this is a hell
of a battle, dude.
- Yes.
- And I'm stoked
to see how it ends up.
- Hey, guys.
- Crushers, crushers
in the room.
- Obviously you guys are here
because there's some beef
between the two of you.
So, we're about to settle
the score.
Whoever wins this grudge match
ends it all, guys.
- Angel, you did awesome.
- Killer tattoo.
- The knowledge that you
showed of light source
and shading
when you shaded that horse,
that's one of the most
difficult things to tattoo.
When I look at that horse,
I know that it's running,
I know the muscles
that are being used.
- But I feel like you still
need to pull
some contrast into there.
- All it needed was
a little bit of background.
- Yeah, I totally hear you
on that.
I was like, if I have
to do all that blending,
it's going to eat up
so much time.
- But I think you wanted to put
that contrast in,
so you pulled your liner out,
and you defined the mane
as it flowed,
and the tail, because
they were the most crisp.
Your eye immediately goes
to those two elements
that were supposed to be
in the background.
- Right, yeah. I mean, I like
the darkness of it,
but it's so...
- Totally.
But if it's the most
defined thing...
- It's so defined.
- It messes with focus.
- I liked her tattoo.
You know?
I mean, I can definitely tell
that's her strong suit.
- Angel, what do you think
about Jimmy's?
- I'm honestly
really impressed,
because it's Jimmy, but--
[laughter]
- Thank you.
- In a good way.
- I was his damn coach,
I'm surprised as shit.
- We played on her turf,
but I feel like I gave her
a good fight.
- I couldn't believe
you did this, man.
- Thank you.
- Honestly, I would give you--
should I give you
a standing applause?
Truly, you didn't
come into this tattoo
as a traditional tattooer
attempting black-and-gray
realism,
you did this tattoo as a
black-and-gray realism artist.
The technique
that you came out with,
the texture of the hair,
the way you tattooed.
- Super soft.
It just literally looked like
you could pet it.
- Where you lost it
for me a little bit
was the neck fur.
It's almost like
you have all this dope fur
that you could brush and pet,
and then it goes
in spaghetti hair, you know?
- I just wanted to show
different textures.
- I look at that different
hair, and I immediately think,
oh, yeah, he's got
a long bottom mane.
- If you pull some
of those long hairs down,
and didn't end it like a box,
you would've got
the illusion of fur more.
- I'm kind of on the fence.
My biggest thing is,
when I look at Jimmy's tattoo,
at first glance, it looks
like a real-ass cat.
The one thing that kills me
with Angel's tattoo
is just the mane,
the hard line around the edge.
- But if I may, I mean,
the sharpest part of Jimmy's
is the cat's neck.
The point that should be
the sharpest should be,
you know, the most important
features, the nose, the eyes.
I'm just saying,
if I'm gonna get
railed for that,
I'm gonna point that out.
- Yeah.
- Absolutely.
- I'm gonna vote.
- I'm ready.
♪ ♪
[suspenseful music]
- Being
a black-and-gray artist,
I think you both
did an amazing job.
Angel, you gave us a tattoo
that was executed beautifully.
So much knowledge
and technical ability
went into that.
But I'm going with Jimmy.
You shocked the hell
out of me, dude.
- [bleep].
- I'm--I'm gonna go for...
old rattlesnake pants
over here.
- Shit.
- I really like the texture
in the fur.
- Thank you.
- I'm gonna choose Jimmy.
- Thank you.
- Unanimous, dude.
- Jimmy, congratulations.
You surprised the hell out
of all of us.
♪ ♪
- I feel pretty good.
- Pretty good.
- I mean, you could be a
smartass all you want, but--
- No. [laughs]
- You know, I'm proud of you,
the fact that it was so close.
I'm proud to be a part
of that, you know?
- Two winners in my book.
- Honestly, yeah.
- Yeah. And the grudge is over.
- You're good?
- Yeah.
- Aww.
- Thank you.
- You did good.
- Jimmy versus Jimmy,
he had a great outing today.
But Jimmy versus Angel
is another story.
I don't necessarily think
that it should've gone the way
that it went,
but you win.
I'm not gonna say shit anymore.
- Hug me even though
you don't want to.
- [bleep] You did so good.
You did so good.
[dramatic rock music]
♪ ♪
- Everything you guys have
to prove,
you better show us now.
It's the final hour.
♪ ♪
- Well, it's decent.
I mean, there's no pop.
But I'm sure
it's gonna be there.
- This dude will not shut up.
But I'm just gonna let you
keep talking,
because everything's
coming out
how I need it to right now.
I feel like I'm slowly just
inching past him.
- [gasps] Whoa.
Holy shit.
You guys are gonna make it
seriously tough for us today.
You guys are both crushing it.
♪ ♪
I absolutely love Sparks'
tattoo.
- It works.
- Totally.
- Like, the [bleep]
with the claws, bro.
- Yeah.
- It was rad.
- Jason's is so dope.
- Jason's is rad, too.
I know. The color blends,
holy shit. It's so clean.
Dude, it's solid.
- Everything's solid.
- How are we gonna choose?
- I know. We're gonna have
to just roll some dice.
- I'm down with that.
I like rolling dice.
♪ ♪
- All right, guys,
I'm counting it down.
Five, four, three,
two, one.
That's it, this grudge match
is over.
- Sweet, all done.
- Wow, it's [bleep] awesome.
- This is the best bug
that's ever been done
in this competition.
- All right, man.
- Awesome.
- Yeah, it looks sick.
- Pretty stoked, dude.
- It's not bad.
- No, it's not.
- It's pretty clean, but it's
not a [bleep] winner.
- This dude can [bleep] off,
like, I'm pumped.
- Couple of anatomical errors.
- It's not anatomical, dragons
don't exist, home dawg.
- I'm proud of you, man.
You came in here
and you gave it, like,
a good effort with no excuses.
- That was the [bleep] point.
I'm trying to show you
that I can do
a [bleep] clean-ass tattoo.
- Congrats for taking second.
- Oh, you mother[bleep].
- Oh.
- Both these Texas boys
showed up and they danced,
I mean,
they did some awesome tattoos.
- Hardcore, man.
Sparks really tried to stomp
Jason with
his illustrative style.
- As much as Jason runs
his mouth, he backs it up.
- Hey, guys.
- There we go.
Clearly you guys
have been going back and forth,
who's the biggest rooster
in the henhouse,
and we're here to end this.
- Well, let's get into it.
- Jason, I don't think that
this illustrative challenge
fazed you at all.
This beetle is super bad-ass.
I really like the little
jewels you got in there,
right on his back.
A lot of good detail.
You can tell that it's got
that nice little shine to it,
it's got a different texture
than the rest of it.
- All your line work's
super good.
All the lines in the legs
are really crispy.
You're a smooth applicator.
- Overall, the colors play
beautifully against each other.
The perfect amount
of contrast and hue.
The real shining moment was
the really bright, beautiful
seafoam teal color.
That specific color is
a really hard color
to saturate so solid
and so consistently,
and you nailed it.
That being said, I feel like
some of the black could've been
more saturated.
The black that Sparks achieved
was so rich and deep and dark.
- You did a super solid tattoo.
It's really bold
and in your face.
You got a lot
of good tricks in this thing.
You use this heavy, bold line
work around the claws
where they come out at you,
and then inside of all that
thick line work, you use
some thin lines,
and really play
with your line weights.
- Your color play
was super awesome.
I love how you used
this really weird,
sort of boogery strange green
in the claws,
and then you brought that same
green back into the armor,
into all of the little
nail heads up
the entire seam
of the armor.
That play was
really smart.
- If you look at his,
because he didn't pull enough
reds up to the top,
I think that your eyes
are pulled either down
or up,
but you don't read
the whole thing.
And I think a good tattoo
is something
that you should look at
and see the entire tattoo.
- I want the person's eye
to travel from the tip
of that fingernail to the last
shred of skin coming off.
Like, I want their eyes to
flow through the whole thing.
- So, you want the person's eye
to look at the best part,
and not pay attention
to the top part.
- I just said, flow through
the whole thing.
- I feel like I did
a better tattoo.
Mine's got more tricks,
it's got more details,
it's got better blends.
- But I do feel like your image
was very, like, symmetrical,
let me draw one side
and copy it.
- And that makes it harder,
a symmetrical image is harder.
- No, symmetry's easy.
- It's a race, and you can't
win it with one leg.
- Both you guys
did solid tattoos.
But one of you guys
has to win, like--
- Yeah, drawing for drawing,
I love both of these things.
The color play on both
of these is amazing.
- They both killed it on the
line work.
Jason, I love your design.
I love how refreshing
it was.
Sparks, your tattoo was bold.
It was intentional.
Sparks, my vote is for you.
- Thank you very much.
- I mean, I couldn't find
anything wrong
with either of these.
Sparks, you've got a lot
of really nice blends
in that armor.
Jason, you've got
some really kick-ass effects
that you did with these wings
and with the legs.
Damn. I'm like pulling hairs
here.
♪ ♪
My vote's for Sparks.
- Oh, shit.
- My vote's for Sparks.
- Thank you so much.
- Sparks, you won
the grudge match, bro.
- Thank you very much.
♪ ♪
- Like, if we could've gave
both you guys the win,
I think all of us would've.
- Oh, dude, Jason,
you freakin' crushed it today,
man.
That tattoo was so dope.
- I'm glad that he came
and he did a good tattoo.
- Good shit. Congratulations.
- Yeah.
Here's to settling the score.
- Congrats.
- It's all good, man.
- Hey, you did good, man.
- Honestly, I'm just stoked
I got a shut-out win.
I'm actually really proud
of myself.
- Killer tattoo, super killer.
- Sparks, so proud of you.
- Did Sparks do
a good, solid tattoo? Yes.
Did Sparks do
an amazing tattoo? No.
Mine was definitely better, but
hey, maybe now somebody
will finally remember Sparks.
- Dude, you [bleep] killed it.
- Yeah, you did
a good tattoo, man.
- Congrats, by the way.
- Awesome.