Ink Master

The artists create single-needle tattoos for inmates in their first Flash Challenge, and canvases seek cover-ups in the elimination challenge.

The artists team up to create customized grills for lowrider cars, canvases sit for gory tattoos, and NFL star Chris Johnson joins the panel as a guest judge.

The artists test their texture skills in a sexy Flash Challenge, a difficult canvas leads to a second elimination, and tattoo veteran Tony Hundahl joins as a guest judge.

The artists must assemble their own tattoo machines before tattooing bar codes onto their canvases, and tattoo machine innovator Seth Ciferri joins as a guest judge.

The artists tackle tattooing over scarred skin in the Flash Challenge, a canvas asks for a Day of the Dead portrait of Tatu Baby, and artist Chuey Quintanar is a guest judge.

The artists transform models into animals in the Flash Challenge, and veteran tattoo artist Troy Denning judges the artists' Asian-style tattoos in the elimination challenge.

Dave acts as a human canvas in the Flash Challenge, the artists struggle through landmark-themed tattoos, and color realism expert Nikko Hurtado is a guest judge.

The artists must tattoo one another in the Flash Challenge, surprise canvases sit for a pinup Elimination Tattoo, and NFL star NaVorro Bowman is a guest judge.

The artists etch designs into human skulls, canvases sit for super-villain-themed tattoos, and DC Comics artist Greg Capullo is a guest judge.

The artists get squeamish when tattooing eyelids, a canvas requests a portrait of one of the judges during the Elimination Tattoo, and artist Corey Miller is a guest judge.

The artists honor military veterans by engraving dog tags on the deck of an aircraft carrier, canvases get complex tattoos on their heads, and Twig Sparks is a guest judge.

Past guest judges give the artists designs, one canvas sits for a simultaneous tattoo, and the artists are given the freedom to create Elimination Tattoos.

America's vote brings two eliminated artists back for a live tattoo face-off, and after a final 35-hour tattoo, the judges award one artist with the title of Ink Master.