Every Intimidating Hand Tattoo Challenge ✋Ink Master

- For centuries, fishermen around the world have told legendary stories about a fictional sea monster similar to the giant squid, the kraken. According to legend, the kraken wreaked havoc on large ships and vessels carrying rum and had violent battles with its natural enemies. Nowadays, all your canvases want to get their

hand

s on their own

tattoo

of the kraken in battle. - Her

hand

s? - There is a long list of problems with hand

tattoo

s. Some hands will swell immediately. You have veins, bones. There are totally different factors when it comes to hands. - And you must work in teams of two tattooing both hands of the canvas at the same time. - That? - That? - The kraken must be black and gray while the enemy can be any color.

You must use contrast so that your design is dynamic and the battle is very clear. Three hours left, three more hours. - You'll need some background to create contrast, you know what I mean? You won't have any contrast if you fill it like this. Just follow my example, man. I want you to do exactly what I tell you. It should be black, you know what I mean? Contrast, contrast, contrast. -I know that St. Marq can provide contrast because he does not shut up. - That black background will be the strongest contrast of all. - I just want to go to Las Vegas.

We don't have time to argue. - Contrast, keep it in mind. - Shut up (beep). (dramatic music) - The shark bin will join right there. - So we want this tentacle to return this way? -Eric is just working with me. I just tell him, hey, do this, do that. I like to work alone. I like to win alone. I'm going to put a medium blue around his head and then remove the light blue to get to you at the same time. I'm going to take on the leadership role whether you want me there or not. - One hour left, final time. - What do you do with the suction cups? - I'm just putting a super light washed tone on them.

I am the female favorite in this competition. Do you think you'll have time to do some mint behind this? - Yes. - I have to monitor Marisa's tattoo to make sure we can win this. - You're going to leave your tentacles last, right? - Yes, then I can see yours. - Dave is doing the sperm whale. It looks like a shoe box with an eyeball. It doesn't even look like a whale to me. - I think he is a friendly and playful whale. - It'll make me look like a fool up there. - Five four three two one.

That's it, machines off. Time's up, no more ink. - That's great, huh? - Awesome. - We're done with this lady. -What are St. Marq and Miami thinking giving two solid black tattoos on a soccer mom's hands? That looks terrible. (dramatic music) - It's time to critique your work. Katie and Marisa, you go up first. - I made the kraken, Marisa made the shark - As for the contrast, I think the light stands out on the kraken and against the dark black, very, very beautiful. The shark is a little tougher. There is a lot of vibrancy that really makes it stand out. - Earl and Duffy.

From a few meters away it is very difficult to know what is happening. - It was difficult to find a middle ground with the background that is supposed to be like a dark scene. - Darker blues on darker skin kill contrast. Earl, as for your snake, it's more of a fish. - It's a big head and just a bunch of spikes behind it. - Damn Earl, you need to stay away from these snakes. Go ahead and let it sit. -Erik and Chris. - Lots of contrast on both sides of the fence and very legible. It is one of the best drawn tattoos we have seen today. - You created a whole underwater scene happening here.

Very cool guys. MV and Kito. - We opted for a dark water and then, in contrast, a very bright orange for the background. - I don't think it's that bright. It goes from a darker shade on this side to a lighter shade on this side. - I don't think it adds much contrast to your skin. - We think we got it right with the contrast. - Miami and St. Marq. You are two teachers, what was it like working together? - We really bring out the best in each other. - Technically they are two strong tattoos. You have some very dark areas to contrast with the section of tentacles you have in the foreground.

St. Marq, I like to leave that front tentacle bare and just have the little suction cups all the way up. Very strong design. -Craig and Tyler. - In general, they are strong tattoos. The shark really stands out and looks strong, with lots of contrast. My problem with the kraken is that it's hard to see what's going on. You overshadowed to lose some of the contrast. - Tylre was my apprentice. He did exactly what I thought he would do. It's just flat, it's boring. - Matt and Big Ceeze. - I can definitely see what both objects are.

The gorilla could use a much more marked and much blacker outline. - In darker skin, more use of black and less use of gray is always what will last longer. - Kruseman and Dave. - I like these tattoos. They are simple and bold. What bothers me is the end of the whale on the knuckles. The eye is lined and finished, but the shading stops beyond that. That annoys me. - My part looks amazing. I could strangle Dave Clark right now. It has 100% taken away my chance of getting my first skull pick. (dramatic music) - The judges have decided that the winners of today's flash

challenge

are (dramatic music) Erik and Chris. (group applauding) - Very clear and strong images, imitating each person's style, very well applied technically. - Thanks man. - For this flash

challenge

, you must tattoo one of the most delicate and sensitive areas of the human body, (dramatic music) the palm of your hand. (groans) There are more sensory neurons in the palms than anywhere else in the body and a larger brain area dedicated to receiving their signals.

It means your canvas will definitely suffer unbearable pain. - Tattooing the palm of the hand is one of the most complicated and serious areas. It is extremely painful and is not like a normal tattoo. - It must have an impeccable technical application. Overwork the skin and you will permanently damage it. If you don't do it right, your tattoo won't last. -Has anyone done it before? (dramatic music) - There is a right way to tattoo your palm and a certain (bleep) wrong way. - I don't know the technique. Not even know where to start. - And your time begins now. (dramatic music) - I'm Ryan, nice to meet you. - Double trouble right here. - That's how it is. - Palm tattoos are incredibly difficult because the skin type is completely different. - The only thing left on the palm is black. - It is always being used.

The skin is always peeling, always changing. - Coloring with this thing is impossible. I won't put you through so much pain for nothing. - Palm tattoos have to do with a specialized technical application and it is something that has to be deep. - Anything around here where the calluses start will fall off. - Today Oliver and I are not going to help at all. This is something that as a tattoo artist you know how to do or not and we are not here to teach how to tattoo, we are here to criticize it. - Here's the thing with the hands.

You have to keep it a little simple. - No, it has to stay close to realistic. - It is impossible not to make colors today. I will have to do it. - It says something when you have eight tattoo artists in a room and none of them have tattooed palms. - Think about it. - How bad could a palm be, you know? - Pretty bad. - So Kelly, when you got the tattoo on your palm, do you come in like that? - It's quite similar to outlining, making my lines with stippling. - You're a tough guy. - I'm more than happy to help Nikki and Ryan.

We just need one of the girls to get the skull pickaxe from her. - Hi Kelly, where do you think I should point, like small down here? - Yes, that way it's like depth. - I understand. - Okay, let me do this. - I am very proud of my ladies right now. All our canvases are committed to a realistic design. - All the other canvases that have color and things on their palms that won't last. We're about to make these guys look stupid. (upbeat music) - Five, four, three, two, one. That's it, machines off. Time's up, no more ink. - Oh my god, that looks beautiful.

A small moment of pain for a lifetime of beauty. -Sketchy gave her something that looks like she stuck her hand in an ink spill or something. What's that? - Are you happy? - I'm happy. - Well ok. - Very well artists, it is time to criticize your work. Bone face. - It's a soft tattoo. If it were on a normal part of the body, that nice soft gray shading is a beautiful effect, but you can see the texture of the skin that has the texture of fingerprints, you can see that the shading is on top of that.

That is the skin that dies in the process of a tattoo. So when that skin dies and is gone, the tattoo goes with it. So, for that point, your technical application on a normal body part is fine. But in this challenge, she couldn't stand it. -Kevin. - It would be questionable how real. You usually aren't creating enough depth when you only make one pass, no matter how slow or deep it is. It generally tends not to be maintained. - And you see that when you try to outline that skin it is not like normal skin. When you put the needle through it, it just doesn't come out crispy and will heal even worse. - The judges have no mercy.

I am consumed with fear right now. -Kelly. - I really liked the design. It is very simple. I like the approach. This is the way to do it. When he heals, he will still look like the world. - Obviously the moral of the day is that the details won't stay, the color won't stay. So you can pretty much skip all that and just get in and get out. - Thank you. - Gian. - What we are seeing now is a beautiful tattoo but I don't know what percentage will be there when it heals. It will be a very low percentage, so low that people will not be able to recognize what it is. -Nate. - I've had some tattoos on my palms.

I know the color is a bad decision, but... But you set the color. - I couldn't convince him not to do it. - The fact is that the tattoo doesn't look good now and it won't look good later. -Ryan. - I know that getting a tattoo on the palm to make it look has to be as simple as possible. - I really like the design. I really like its simplicity and I like the way it fits in the hand. But you can see that most of your points are simply not deep enough. - Most likely it is the tattoo that disappears. - Nikki. - The approach you use in this tattoo is definitely the correct technical application.

The ones that stay are the ones that are made like this, very legible, clean design. - The placement, I would like you to go a little lower and make the flame a little more pronounced, but the execution is very clean. The route you chose is the only route that will remain. - Incomplete. - I think it should look pretty good. - It's not. It's a huge black spot. Those lines, they're just a lot of pain for nothing. - It's hard to see what's happening. And looking at it closely, the detail is very rough. It's just a mess, man. - I know I'm a great tattoo artist.

Let them test me, I'm not used to that and I don't like it. I mean, Jesus. - Very good guys, today you had to show impeccable technical application by tattooing the palm of your canvases. The winner of today's flash challenge is Nikki. - Your tattoo had the best attributes. Your design, very legible, very clear. Few people took the right approach. Ryan, Kelly and Nikki... Those were the only three tattoos in the room that were actually doable. - Mine did want a planet Earth in full color. - Yes, but a circle that looks like the Earth is definitely... - I changed my mind to something that would work. - Yes, my boy wanted realism. - Sometimes you get a good canvas, sometimes you don't. (dramatic music) - For today's flash challenge, you must design custom letters from scratch without using any references. - Create your own original font, yes, that's difficult.

There is a lot of room for error. - And you must tattoo a part of your body so small but so visible that precision is absolutely necessary, (dramatic music) your knuckles. - Tattooing your knuckles is difficult because if you go too deep or blow on it, you're screwed. And if you don't put it deep enough, it won't stay. Your knuckles are super visible. You can't hide them unless you wear a glove. (groans) - Your time begins now. - How are you? - Today, what is at stake is the highest it will ever be. - I'll take my time and try to make all the letters seem to go together. - Precision is

every

thing when it comes to knuckle tattoos.

I want to do something that is daring, that has a lot of little tricks. - It's an uncomfortable way to stretch, an uncomfortable way to hold. You see that many tattoo artists are not sure how exactly to position their hand so that they can draw a perfectly straight line. - So I'm going to take each individual finger and wrap it like this. Keep your hand as limp as possible. - You can't hide your hands. If it's not done correctly, you're (beep). - All color? - Yes. - The most difficult thing about this is that they are the knuckles.

Its color will almost disappear very quickly. There is absolutely no way I can do this in full color. If I can't get my canvas to change minds, I'm in trouble. (dramatic music) - Your man over there is nervous. What's his name, Sausage? -Is he nervous? -Yes, he is nervous. - You can smell it, huh? -Yes, I can see it all over his face. - Yes me too. - Now I'm not opposed to putting color there. I just want to put black in there. - I don't want it to be hard. I liked the colorful look of the tattoo. - And I wantpower to give you what you want.

If we can get on the same page so I can give a little and then if you can give a little then we can hit it out of the park. - Are you ready? If it stings a little, it means it's working. (dramatic music) - Alright guys, one hour left, one hour left. (dramatic music) - There is a lot of stress in this knuckle tattoo because it has negative lettering. Since you're making it negative, it has to have thicker parts, you know? I have to tattoo the outside of my finger and not the inside of the letters.

I can't make them too small or too thin or they will close over time. Keep them very nice and clean. I have to be very careful. - I usually trust my instinct. After the baffling review I received last week, I'm having second thoughts. What do you think? - This is adorable. - I feel a lot of pressure to live up to what

every

one expects of me. - Five four three two one. Machines off, no more ink. - Thank you so much. - Yes, definitely, come here. - It's definitely my style so... - Impressive. -Where did Sarah get her source from, a dumpster?

I can't believe Sarah is such a specialist that she doesn't even know how to write lyrics. -Well artists, now is the time to criticize her work. Matti, when I heard the idea of ​​negative lyrics he wasn't really sure what it would be like and I think he did a great job here. - I tried to be very precise with the lines. I used a little stippling in the background so it doesn't blur over time. - The way you did it was a smart decision. The stippling effect gives it a nice fade, it gives it the negative focus that she wanted.

Great job. -Sausage, when you got here, you insisted that she not be black. What happened? - I listened to my artist. - I think the color turned out well, but your line work lacks some precision here. You have some discrepancies in some of the lines where your lines end, some fade out, others end bluntly, particularly at the bottom of the F. It just doesn't end as well as the I or the R. - The sausage has a bad tattoo . He just didn't make good decisions. It's totally screwed. -Jimmy. One of the great tests of accuracy is when you have two identical letters and you keep them similar.

What you've done here with the S's, which is delicate and feminine, I think is exactly what she wanted. Christian. - The most impressive part of your tattoo is how perfectly they line up on both knuckles. This is probably the most direct lyric of the day. - The precision in this really is your application with your color. Very good work. - Thank you. - Antonio. - Your great lines are all bold and solid, but I must call your attention to the precision. The consistency in the small lines is very shaky. - You're writing killa in a certain way, so you're already dealing with something that's hard to read and then you have a very elaborate font.

Maybe not the most readable. Megan Jean. - Your tattoos stand out very bold and when you look at them up close, they look very clean. There's really only one discrepancy in the way you got the traditional A's. You have the line going through the open part of the A instead of just coming out the back. But I think it's very strong. These tattoos are going to last. - Clean. - They are definitely very strong and daring tattoos. The black is pretty, the small gray reflections give it delicacy. - You have three letters that you have on both fingers.

You have the L, the I, and the E. They all match perfectly, which really shows that you are able to imitate your own letters repeatedly. Is strong. - Thank you. -Sarah. - Some of the lines seem a little more sculpted than others. The rightmost part of the W is a little close to the center. So as you age over time, you might have a problem there. - And you didn't get the O's right. The font style you chose made it very difficult to get those concentric lines on your finger. It just looked like a shitty oblong donut. - I'm crazy?

We're not seeing the same tattoos here. Why are they pointing at me? - The judges have decided that the winner of the flash challenge (dramatic music) is Clean Rock One. - Clean, I think you really showed off accurately today because you match those same letters. You combined the L's, I's and E's in that hand style and I think you did a very good job. - I can't believe Clean won again. This is (beep). - Return to the loft and prepare to find out who you should fight next. Many religions prohibit tattoos. Many people don't get tattoos because it goes against their religious beliefs.

However, today you should tattoo your nails from your canvases. - That? - That? - I don't work in a nail salon, bitch, I work in a tattoo parlor. - Each drop of ink will be permanently embedded in the nail, but eventually the nails will grow. - Dude, are you crazy? I'm not even 100 percent sure this is going to work. - You must demonstrate consistency by tattooing one design on five of the nails on your canvases and another design on the other five nails. Micro tattoos are very difficult because they require extreme precision in each stroke of the needle to create a clear design on a small canvas. - One thing about the nails, they are not consistent.

I don't see anything about today being easy. - And your time begins now. (upbeat music) - Hi, I'm Katie. - Hi! Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you. - How are you? I'm Craig. - Nice to meet you. - No tattoos, this is it, huh? - The more basic we go, the cooler it will look because it's a very small space. - I have done it many times when I was young, when I was learning. I would sit there and do some things to my nails to see how something would work. I bet I'm the only tattoo artist here who's tattooed my own nails before.

Chris is used to getting huge tattoos. You may find it difficult to make these small micro tattoos with those big, chubby fingers. - I have been tattooing for 18 years and you are my first nails. - Correct. - I definitely have this one in the bag. - It must be the strangest feeling ever. - Let's start with your little finger. - Well. - My canvas wants little hearts and ice cream cones. - Have you ever gotten a tattoo on your nails? - No. I've never seriously tattooed a nail, but I mean I can tattoo anything anywhere. - You're still here, that's good. - Oh yeah, and I'm kicking ass. - Kicking ass. - I love the idea of ​​a crescent moon.

I love the idea of ​​a planet with moons orbiting it or whatever. - My canvas wants an entire galaxy on its nails. I had never had a nail tattooed before. But the fact that it's a nail scares me. You're tattooing on this hard surface, it's rigid and stuff. It's so disgusting. Like I'm weird with nails. - Now I think, oh no, are you going to have enough time to do them all? - 30 minutes left guys. 30 minutes left. (dramatic music) - What do you think of something like that? - That's really nice. - A pattern is the best way to show consistency.

I really need to work hard to not be down again. It is a very close competition. And now that we're low in numbers, it's getting tough. (upbeat music) - I'm showing 10 beach scenes. The only thing that doesn't match is the position of the sun. So it's just a small change where everything else will be consistent. I'm not against the rules. I'm just using my creativity to help me get the skull selection. (upbeat music) - Five, four, three, two, one. That's it, time is up. - Wow awesome. - My first nail tattoo session. - Craig tattooed a different image on each of his nails.

We're supposed to be consistent. All you have to do is tattoo the same thing on each nail so (bleep) do it, don't make life difficult for yourself. You're (bleep) stupid. (dramatic music) - It's time to critique your work. Let's start with Tyler. - Tyler, I think it's excellent work. Very strong consistency, the lines are very clean, the color fields are very smooth and solid. - All the highlights you have on each ice cream cone with a little blue dot on top, the placement on each nail, I think you did a good job. - Chris. - By doing the full set of nails, as you grow, you will have a consistent style for longer than just having a small sticker.

Overall, I think the consistency is strong. -Eric. - They look very sharp and very sharp. That is the perfect size ratio for the nail that follows the consistency very well. The only inconsistency I see is that a couple of the stars have a slightly different shade and shade of purple than the others. -Duffy. - Of all the different looks you have, the ones with almost half-moon circles are really the most interesting. Those that align in the same way are very consistent. The application and technique are very solid. -Kruseman. - As for the floral design, I think it looks very pretty on the nail.

Something complicated with the spider web. That's where you lost consistency. You see many more changes in wavering details in the spider webs. - Mate. - The anchors came out very consistent. The boat wheels were a difficult thing to do yourself. - That's where your inconsistencies are a bit noticeable. It's a difficult situation and having to make so many circles on your nails. -Katie. - These came out very nice. The moon and star every two fingers is a very good idea. The consistency of the line and the consistency of the color, I think it's nice. But when it comes to consistency, moon shapes vary. -Craig.

None of these are the same. What is happening there? - I thought it would be cool to do a nighttime beach scene that transforms into a daytime scene. - Regarding the general concept of consistency, each design is a little different. They alternate finger to finger and that is a failure. - I am very angry. I'm not breaking any rules here. There is something consistent throughout the design. It's nonsense (bleep). - Today you had to tattoo matching designs on your canvas nails. The judges have decided that the winner of today's flash challenge is Tyler. - That's so funny. -Tyler, overall consistency, yours were super crisp, super clean, the color, each one looked almost exactly the same.

He reached the top. (upbeat music) (Taylor laughing)