‘Ink Master’ season 4, episode 1 podcast: Kyle Dunbar, Dave Navarro and convention style tattoos

Every week after a new episode airs, you can expect to find a podcast here at the website where you will hear opinions from Jessa Carter (co-founder and writer at Cartermatt.com) and resident art and tattoo expert Bart. We will be bringing you fun, insightful and critical opinions on the contestants, the judges, the challenges, and the tattoos all season long. Are there contestants you love and want to see more of? A judge you want to smack around for bad critique? We’ll be here to guide you through all the bumps in the road as well as all the highlights.

For our first podcast of episode 1, Jessa and Bart will be focusing on the new artists and whether or not any of them really showed the potential to be this season’s “Ink Master” after a convention style tattooing challenge failed to show any clear leaders. Also we’ll be looking at returning artist Kyle Dunbar and how disappointing it was not to see him actually tattoo anything. The judges are also a point of contention as they haven’t been giving much in the way of constructive criticism this season (what exactly are the artists supposed to learn from Oliver peck saying “WTF” about a piece?). Do we already have a winner in mind or is it still too early to say? Tune in to the podcast and be sure to share your opinions with us too.