‘Ink Master’ season 2, episode 11 review: Sarah Miller shines with portraits
On tonight’s episode of “Ink Master” season 2, the final 5 artists were brought down for the flash challenge where they were told that they were going to be tested on precision and that they were going to be doing mini tattoos. The artists went toe to toe with Oliver (who is a master at mini tattoos) and are told to tattoo the Jagermeister logo which either has to be the same size of Oliver’s tattoo or smaller. Even though the artists have an extra 30 minutes then Oliver had, some of the artists really struggled with it. The judges were really impressed with Jessie and Steve, but the winner of the flash challenge went to Steve giving him the power to assign all the human canvases in the elimination tattoo.
At the elimination tattoo challenge, Steve, Sebastian, Jessie , Tatu Baby and Sarah are tested on precision, but this time they are tattooing portraits. The guest judge this week is Bob Tyrrell and what was interesting about him was that he didn’t get his first tattoo until his 30th birthday (but had been tattooing for years before that) – something that Jamie was penalized for just last week. When Jessie hears that the challenge is portraits he gets very nervous because he is a new school artist and the other four remaining contestants are all portrait artists. Even though Steve had the advantage to assign all of the canvases, he decided to leave it up to fate and gave out the golden skulls without looking at who got what (except for himself of course).
Sarah gets a canvas that wants her portrait in color, even though the guest judge is a black and grey portrait master. She struggles to decide whether or not she should give the canvas what she wants, which is a color portrait, or keep it black and grey. Sarah asks the canvas if she can do black and grey and they give Sarah the go ahead. Jessie’s client is very nervous about his tattoo after seeing that Jessie only does new school art, but Jessie tries to reassure him that he will do his best, unfortunately Jessie struggled through the entire tattoo.
At the judging panel they loved Steve, Tatu Baby and Sarah’s tattoos, but Jessie and Sebastian ended up at the bottom of the pack and while Jessie took his lumps from the judges, Sebastian got a little aggressive with Chris over his tattoo choices. In the end Sarah won the challenge with the best tattoo she’s done in the competition so far – which was absolutely incredible. Jessie and Sebastian ended up in the bottom two and Jessie was quick to through Sebastian under the bus, which angered Sebastian causing him to fight back. Even though Jessie has won a bunch of challenges throughout the competition, this challenge ended his time on the show and he was sent packing.
Do you think that Jessie should have been sent home or do you feel that it should’ve been Sebastian? Leave us your thoughts in the comment box below.
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Oz
December 18, 2012 @ 8:24 pm
This season, I never found anyone to root for. They all have abrasive attitudes. After last week, I really have a distaste for Sebastian and his insistance that a picture caused him to create a crap tattoo.
I predict Steve is going to win, but I am just along for the ride wherever it goes.
Oz
December 15, 2012 @ 10:59 pm
Jessie is a one-trick pony.
Sebastian hadn’t been on the top or bottom until this week and that makes for a slow, steady tortoise that beat the hare. We’ll see how long Sebastian lasts. He was a bit of a dirtbag the way he talked to the judges but this isn’t an etiquette competition.
Still, Jessie and his one-dimension were lucky to have gotten as far as they did.
Oz
December 15, 2012 @ 10:48 pm
Was anyone else startled by the visual of Jessie and Sebastian standing next to each other? Either Jessie is super short or Sebastian is way tall.
“Jarring” is the word I want to use.
Carolina Lattimore
December 15, 2012 @ 5:00 pm
Leave my little psycho Sarah alone she is really talented!!! but I agree Sebastian should have been the one sent home:(.
Bean27
December 15, 2012 @ 7:25 am
Sending Jamie home last week instead of Sarah was a huge mistake. Yes, she’s crazy & has talent but, Jamie’s tattoo was better than hers. The judges definitely had that wrong & here we go again this week sending Jessie home instead of Sebastian!! All of these artists are very talented but my favorites this season have been Steve, Tatu Baby & Jamie.
BabyBird
December 14, 2012 @ 10:45 pm
I understand everyone’s frustration with Sarah and her emotions however, I believe we need to view on quality of work…not attitudes. We only see how editors decide to cut the film. I believe Sarah has turned out consistent work over this competition. Steve has also been overall very consistent. Tatu Baby only recently has started turning out quality work. We are not judging on personalities but on talent..if I wanted to get a tattoo I would definitely consider any of these three. To me that is the choice…..who would we want to give us a Permanent tattoo?
Jeff
December 14, 2012 @ 1:52 am
They got the right bottom two. Although his shading was off, Sabastian’s tattoo is identifiable as the person in the picture. Jessie’s is just vaguely similar and the shape ended up quite distorted. Based only on this week’s results, Jessie’s was worse and deserved to go. However I believe his prior body of work, consistently much better than Sabastian’s, should have been given more consideration.
shiryl
December 13, 2012 @ 11:17 pm
Ok Sarah is talented. However she is a BITCH. Not a master…..she says on every round oh I am gonna nail this cuz I am “A” whatever the subject is she is the best at that. Please she is a psycho.
Barbarita
December 13, 2012 @ 4:36 pm
In my opinion they need to hurry up and send Sarah home, and right away!! (she is nothing but drama)
nelly
December 13, 2012 @ 3:28 pm
First off, Jamie should not have been sent home and it’s clear that his lack of tattoos was a deciding factor when that shouldn’t have mattered. Jessie took Steve’s advice and tried to defend himself at the expense of Sebastian, which I don’t blame him for doing. Both of them did not accurately replicate the photo they had to work from. However, I feel that Jessie messed up more in the fact that the face was distorted and the shading was horrible, whereas only the shading was off on Sebastian’s.
Sure Sebastian had an attitude problem during the critique but again, that’s not what they’re being judged for. Had they dismissed him instead of Jessie, it would have meant they took his attitude into account just like they took Jamie’s lack of tattoos into account. So for those people saying Jamie shouldn’t have been dismissed for his lack of tattoos, which I agree with, don’t say that Sebastian should have been dismissed for his attitude. They are being judged on their work, plain and simple.
ivana felix
December 13, 2012 @ 11:38 am
I think he should of stayed his portrait was better than Sebastian’s. Sebastian’s shading I mean like he shaded backward i guess that is how you can put it. but Jessie should of stayed.
Bryan Manuel
December 13, 2012 @ 12:25 am
Throughout the competition the judges when finding it difficult to eliminate, always looked at the artists overall pattern and previous positions in different episodes. That combined with Sebastian’s intolerable rudeness and lack of professional courtesy should have seen him go home, not Jessie!
Evelyn
December 12, 2012 @ 9:15 pm
Didn’t agree with the judges choice if sending Jamie home or this week with Jesse. In my opinion Sarah should have left last week and this week Sebastian should have been sent home. The last two weeks the judges have gotten it wrong and sent the wrong artists home.
Rene " bearclaw " G.
December 12, 2012 @ 8:07 pm
jessie has better and tighter lines , and never had any negative comment about the competition until now . he was the one that admitted to his flaws , and learned from it ,
never had an attitude .. and had the right mind set that … what the canvas wants !!!!
Margaret Shafer
December 12, 2012 @ 2:09 pm
Jessie should have stayed. Rudeness should not be tolerated.