‘devils in the details’ Ink Master ep.3 recap

In this weeks flash challenge, the artists had to use detail with black, white, and colorful ultraviolet paint to make not one, but two human bodies disappear so when the lights come on, an illusion will pop out. They worked in teams of two with Gian assigning the teams. Team number 4, Katie and Holli created an illusion of a phoenix rising from the flames with beautiful textures and warm colors; team number 3, Jason and Hiram created an octopus showing all eight limbs with textures and details; team number 2, Angel and Pon, created a tiger stalking in the grass with the illusion that the snout of the tiger and paw are coming out with beautiful color theory and textures; and team number 1, Bob and Gian, created an alligator with the legs of the body being the mouth and they got the most intricately detailed patterns that with a split decision. Team number 1 won the flash challenge. Artistically and creatively, all the artists did some rad designs and it was pretty awesome seeing what they could do.

Elimination time. If there was ever a dating app for zoo animals, this might be an exception because it’s Pon, Gian, Katie, Bob, and Jason, to the animal pin-up rescue. The artists had to use detail, and with Dave being the master of chaos, he said that they had to take ordinary animals and transform them into a sexy pin-up style. Whether it’d be fur, spots, hooves, claws, tails, they had to show anatomically a full head-to-toe animal pin-up and were there ever creative ones today. Pon created a cow pin-up with the cow’s skirt blowing up revealing her udders spilling milk on a barbecue grill. It was hysterically weird but the details he put in made it awesome and funny. The textures and colors were also super saturated. Gian created a llama pin-up sipping a pina colada on the beach with clean technical application and solid colors, even though the judges said some textures were not uniform. Katie created a rockabilly pig pin-up with a pearl necklace and a fence with amazing details, saturated blacks and colors and amazing details that are right on “p-oink”. Creepy Jason created an elephant pin-up holding a dumbbell with her calves, wearing 80’s workout clothes which turned out to be not a hard ask. He did amazing saturated colors, illustrative details, and it’s the cutest of the bunch. Bob unanimously went above and beyond with his illustration and won tattoo of the day. He created a sexy giraffe wearing lingerie with amazing anatomical proportions, sexy details in the lingerie and hair and spots, solid color theory, and composition. Congrats Bob on the win and great job y’all on making these animals sexy.

Here are the animal pin-ups that were less sexy and left a lot to be desired. In the bottom of the field, Angel Rose created a deer wearing a Marilyn Monroe dress with her skirt blowing up. The legs were the best legs of he day but some of the details and textures were lost. A lack of some contrast with the hoove closest to the mouth blending in, stiff composition in the dress, and the ears being almost mouse-like ears. Holli created yet another capybara (which I thought was a beaver) into a pin-up, dipping her feet in hot springs. Most of the judges thought her application and her color saturation was solid, but the legs were off with one being smaller than the other, and dark. She also had one hand disappearing in the hair which Ryan thought was “cop-out”. The unfortunate kick in the nuts and artist who was eliminated next was Hiram’s leopard gecko pin-up. The shading was clean but the hands were contorted and off and the worst of it that it had two left feet. The majority of the judges couldn’t overlook all the anatomical problems so they eliminated him next. He definitely had a lot of hunger and fight in him and hearing his story from season 13 and now, he’s overcome so much and he’s made his country of Cuba proud. Sorry bro. Technically, the alliances’ advantage backfired. Until next week.

For some insight on the episode heres ‘No More Ink’ with this episodes eliminated artist Hiram and host Ryan Ashley.