Ink Master (season 4)

• Flash Challenge: All artists, except for Kyle, must tattoo hundreds of canvases in a convention style. The winners in this challenge will not only receive their own shop but will also not participate in the elimination tattoo.

• Winners: Matti Hixson, Scott Marshall, Ashley Bennett, Jim Francis and Sausage

• Elimination Tattoo: The remaining artists have been given one last chance to convince the judges that they deserve to be in the competition by tattooing in their own style. There was no winner for this challenge, but the judges selected Halo and Melissa as their favorites.

• Bottom: Roland Pacheco, Damon Butler and Randy Vollink
• Eliminated: Damon Butler

• Skill of the Week: Dimension
• Flash Challenge: The artists had two hours to tattoo their assigned bug, either a scorpion or tarantula, while using their own photo as a reference.

• Winner: Halo

• Elimination Tattoo: The artists' first elimination tattoo has them creating an eye tattoo using the tattooing fundamentals with dimension being the key aspect. Dimension is defined as using shadows and highlights to make a tattoo appear to be popping off the skin. The judges were not happy with most of the work, in fact they withheld the canvas voting, and eliminated the best tattoo position for this episode. In the end the reviews were low, and Ashley quit after having an emotional breakdown; between initial judging and the judge's choice for worst tattoo of the day.

• Guest Judge: Tommy Montoya

• Skill of the Week: Consistency

• Flash Challenge: This challenge required some skill and patience. Working in five teams of three, one artist in a team designed a tattoo, and the other two artists applied the tattoo on a mirrored part of the each twin's body (e.g. one artist tattoos an eagle on the left calf while the other artist tattoos the same eagle on the right calf). The goal is to match each other's tattoo to the original drawing as possible.

• Winners: Roland Pacheco, Sausage and Bubba Irwin

• Elimination Tattoo: The artists need to be consistent with their geometric tattoos. David went to the medical center on the night before the elimination tattoo to deal with his back injury from a motorcycle accident he had years ago, and it got the best of him.

• Guest Judge: Carlos Torres
• Best Tattoo of the Day: Sausage
• Bottom: Roland Pacheco, David Bell and Bubba Irwin
• Eliminated: David Bell

• Skill of the Week: Placement

• Flash Challenge: The artists must use their own judgement along with care to decide a design and location to place in order to accentuate the 'flow' of the body.

• Winner: Scott Marshall

• Elimination Tattoo: Aquatic Tattoo incorporating placement.

• Guest Judge: CC Sabathia
• Best Tattoo of the Day: Scott Marshall
• Bottom: Randy Vollink, Bubba Irwin and Roland Pacheco
• Eliminated: Randy Vollink

• Skill of the Week: Technical Precision

• Flash Challenge: The artists create a X-Men-inspired tattoo by creating that incorporates a superpower.

Winner: Matti Hixson

Elimination Tattoo: The remaining artists try to bring characters from X-Men: Days of Future Past to life in their portrait tattoos. Matti and Scott duke it out with their Wolverine tattoos. Melissa at first struggled with her Bishop tattoo after the canvas wanted a full body, but managed to work on the bust while also receiving some help from Halo. Some artists fall short with Lydia rushing her Warpath tattoo, and Gentle Jay failing to capture the likeness of young Charles Xavier. The artists and the human canvases both received two big surprises following the critique. Dave reveals a sneak peek from the movie before bringing in one of its stars Hugh Jackman. And unlike the previous episodes, the winner of this elimination tattoo was chosen by the special guest instead of the judges.

• Best Tattoo of the Day: Scott Marshall
• Bottom: Roland Pacheco and Lydia Bruno
• Eliminated: Roland Pacheco

• Skill of the Week: Contrast
• Flash Challenge: Inspired the Corona 'Find your Beach' campaign, the artists designed tattoos inspired by their own beach. The winner of this flash challenge received a theme sponsored trip to Mexico.

• Winner: Matti Hixson

• Elimination Tattoo: In a double elimination, the artists tattoo a Neo-traditional lady or gentleman. Each tattoo was applied in teams on the same canvas at the same time. Designs should complement each other. Keith and King Ruck were unable to finish after their canvas passed out, but the latter tattooed himself. This is the first episode where two artists got eliminated after the Judges' deliberation and the Human Canvas Jury.

• Guest Judge: Greg Christian
• Best Tattoo of the Day: Sausage
• Bottom: Keith Diffenderfer, Bubba Irwin and King Ruck
• Eliminated: Keith Diffenderfer and Bubba Irwin

• Skill of the Week: Adaptability
• Flash Challenge: Apply lettering with an image embedded.

• Winner: Halo

• Elimination Tattoo: The judges indicated that two artists would be eliminated in this challenge prior to the beginning of the challenge. The artists must design and apply a tattoo on top of another tattoo, essentially erasing the original with their new application. Aspects taken into account during this challenge were line-work, shading, coloring, placement, technicality, and readability.

• Guest Judge: Freddy Corbin
• Best Tattoo of the Day: Halo
• Bottom: Jim Francis, Melissa Monroe, King Ruck and Gentle Jay
• Eliminated: Jim Francis and King Ruck

A fight broke out prior to the flash challenge that saw Kyle lashing out at Núñez for his criticism on him in the last couple episodes. And due to his actions, Kyle was disqualified from the competition. As a result, Sausage had to compete in the Flash Challenge alone.

• Skill of the Week: Black and Gray
• Flash Challenge: Use black powder gun to burn an image onto a canvas.

• Winners: Halo and Scott Marshall

• Elimination Tattoo: The artists create a demon that has black and gray shading while using the negative space to accent.

• Guest Judge: Rob Zombie
• Best Tattoo of the Day: Sausage
• Bottom: Lydia Bruno, Melissa Monroe and Halo
• Eliminated: Lydia Bruno

• Skill of the Week: Detail
• Guest Judge: Brandon Rios
• Flash Challenge: Create a custom mouth grill with a dremel.

• Winner: Scott Marshall

• Elimination Tattoo: Design and apply ma warrior with details to illustrate the origin without incorporating and era and type of warrior. Prior to the critique, Jay found evidence of tracing in Scott's tattoo, which he recognized from an online source. However, the judges did not take any action after Jay revealed the incident during the critique. Their decision led to a public outcry, with many fans questioning the integrity of the competition and some even accusing the judges of favoring Scott over other artists. The judges decided not to eliminate an artist, and indicated the reason was because no one should be eliminated for giving "a good tattoo". All artists applied satisfactory tattoos, albeit some were better than others.

• Best Tattoo of the Day: Matti Hixson
• Bottom: Gentle Jay and Melissa Monroe

• Guest Judge: Luke Wessman
• Skill of the Week: Flexibility
• Elimination Tattoo: Creating a collaboration tattoo with another artist in teams of two, alternating who actually applies the tattoo every hour.

• Winners: Scott Marshall and Halo

• Face Off Challenge Jay and Melissa had four hours to tattoo Luke Wessman's design.

• Eliminated: Gentle Jay

• Skill of the Week: Proportions

• Flash Challenge: Create a proportionally accurate sketch of the Statue of Liberty while using their sketch as the only reference to apply a tattoo.

Winner: Halo

• Elimination Tattoo: The artists must tattoo a Japanese style snake on the ribs of the client with all aspects of tattooing being applied, however proportion is the primary focus.

• 'Guest Judge: Taki

Best Tattoo of the Day: Matti Hixson

• Bottom: Halo, Melissa Monroe and Scott Marshall
• Eliminated: Melissa Monroe

• Skill of the Week: All skills

• Elimination Tattoo: The final four compete in a two six-hour tattoo sessions. The first part has them tattooing a breast cancer survivor while the second half involved cover-up tattoos that were done during the competition by the eliminated contestants in the first episode. The canvases in the second half get to choose their artist following the interview. However, Jim's canvas was unsafe to cover-up due to a bad reaction to the ink.

• Best Tattoo of the Day: Sausage
• Eliminated: Halo

Presented in front of a live audience, broadcast live on the parent network, Ink Master Live combines all aspects of tattooing to present the best artist this season. The remaining artists Scott, Matti and Sausage gave it their all for a chance to become Ink Master. During this episode, the judges announced a new format for Season 5. Called Ink Master: Rivals and set to air in September 2014, the season will see the return of Season 3's Joshua Hibbard and Jason Clay Dunn. It was also said that each artist will bring their own rival. Whether the rival would be from previous seasons artists lineup was not clear.

• Winner: Scott Marshall