Worst Portrait Tattoos on Ink Master 

Just the name Dave Navarro gets me nervous af

Just imagingbgettin a tattoo of dave Navarro haha

im cACKLING at how confident roland was about his x-men tattoo.

Khlet Mista right? it's so intimidating. 😭

"Have you done realistic tattoos?" "Absolutely not at all"

Ballsack grandma 😂🤣💀

Imagine being the canvas and reading this comment 😢

He made it look like her teeth were rotting out of her head, too, instead of her lovely smile. I do portraits in oil, and you NEVER throw in all the wrinkles. You want the person to enjoy their image, and make a good memory for future generations. This tat was inexcusably bad, and turned the woman into an international joke. The judges should be ashamed.

people defending it saying his hit the challenge before Jasons......it really didnt because seriously.....her face simply was not that wrinkly......

Why does everyone hate the grandma? It looks really good

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@@kjords8295 it’s in another video. You can look up “Kyle ink master portrait “. They really go in and the poor woman is really hurt by how harsh people are

LOL

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It's gonna fade right? That's usually what the judges say. When it does, just touch of the main parts, not the wrinkles, and the contrast will make it look good.

i made a commnet thats very much in line with this. i said the judges have bias's against certain competitors

Wouldn't work if a really good artist has an off day I guess

@@Podgorski37 they have guest judges all the time

Agreed!

No. That will ruin the show.

Ahaha 😂 that’s why I’d NEVER EVER get a portrait tattoo inked on me body!. Not even my children.. 😂😂

Grandma looked like she came out of scary stories to read in the dark.

I agree but I understand the judges. The grandma looks horrible but it shows accuracy (what was being tested), and they even said that Jason's was the most pleasing tattoo, but not the most precise.

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@@user-bu4rz6li1o People often get footprints of their children so they can have a nice tattoo

She can always eat a lil more anyway

@@papasmurf4441 😂😂true true

She was also a different race.

Y'all is just racist

@@AnythngnEvrythng I mean I'm black, I have nothing against myself. I just don't think you should give tattoos blackface. How that makes ME racist. I really don't know.

Savage comment

Or pinups. Pinup day always gets at least 1 or 2 really crappy ones and it usually happens a bit later in a season.

Nice pfp

I’d never get a tattoo on ink master

@@charlesbronson240 id never get a tattoo.

Thats the risk you take for a free tattoo! 😂

Budget shoppers make me so mad like you get what you pay for

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I don’t think they know what they’re getting until like hours before they’re about to get tattooed lol

@@mementomorgan6721 the show is available to watch to everyone, if they didn't do 2 seconds of research that's on them

Right? She might have been a saint but he's cheap af.

True leather handbag was worse but it was based on accuracy & Jason’s wasn’t nearly as accurate

Agreed and I actually don't think Jason's was more off. Kyle put in extra wrinkles which made her look like Grandma Leatherface which I would try and get covered up

Yeah, grandma photo was more accurate but he basically overdid the details and the portrait looks awful. I'd rather have Jason's, who's details were a bit off but can still tell who he is verses Leatherface grandma. Like he did Grandma dirty, not cool.

@@Stonefox69 even if Jason's wasn't as accurate they should still base it off if it's a shite tattoo or not

It's all for tv

How the fuck did he stay in the competition after the cat tho The guy just got worse

Cat was atrocious

Ya; I drew better then that in middle school. I was like, what the actual fuck was that. The proportions are off, the shading is horrible, just...god dude

Chris tattoo was a bit much too 🤣

@@demetrasettle I feel like it’s some abstract art type shit you know

Lmao like was it that surprising the guy that tried to New Age as many competitions he could didn't know how to do a portrait.

_I think he's one of the worst artists I've seen on Ink master 😭_

The first thing I thought was that he changed her race

Same! I don’t get how Jason got sent home over Kyle. I thought Jason’s tattoo was good and would of won over Kyle’s portrait tattoo.

Leatherface grandma is a legend, love to show that to people who haven't seen the show.

Me too

Facts lol idc if the glasses out of all things look off 😂 unless someone has a side by side of the tat and the glasses it looks perfect. The dark grandma tattoo with “hyper realism I’d say” would make me upset to have someone look at

Aesthetically Jason's tattoo was very good. He shouldn't have gone home, his actually looked like the guy!

i know right! in what universe did it make sense in his head??

He was too nervous to think straight 😂😂😂

i know right??? i didn’t know what he was thinking

No, you guys are wrong. Think about it. Imagine you took a sticker that had the word STONK on it in fat letters, and wrapped it around a soup can. Then you looked straight ahead at the can. You see skinny S, medium T, fat O, medium N, skinny K. That would make the whole thing skinnier than normal. So you print a sticker with fattiest S, fatter T, fat O, fatter N, fattiest K on it. Then you put the sticker on the can and all the letters look the same thickness (if you look straight on). The tattoo artist fucked up because: 1. He made it way too fat. You're supposed just make it ever so slightly stretched JUST AT THE ENDS, not the whole thing. (my soup can analogy was way exaggerated to make a point.) 2. With a face no stretching is okay. It wound have looked skinnier than the picture by at little, but that is okay with a chubby person cause you always want to make the person at little skinnier, if anything. 3. That dude's thigh was not very round. It was so wide that the front of it was basically a flat surface. Imagine when he sat on a chair. It would flatten out even more.

EXACTLY????? I WAS SO CONFUSED AND BAFFLED?¿??¿

They came after Jason because his was more of an inspiration than a direct photo copy but the thing is that grandma had wrinkles that didn’t even exist in real life so idk how that was ‘real’. I remember this episode from way before and the guy who did the grandma tattoo got pissed off by the client beforehand can’t remember what it was about maybe something about worrying about detail so he did every single wrinkle as a fuck you to the client and then hid behind the “it’s realism” thing when confronted. They should’ve sent him home just for being a dick to the client like that it was so plain to see.

lol if you really know tattoos you would understand all those wrinkles are fading out the first year. Just look at his skull with the jerry curl on the artists vs canvas episode. Kyle doesn't use solid black its grey shading.

The "wich looks horrible" at the end was necessary

@@ea5978 I've just been watching all of these random YT clips so I have no idea what I'm talking about, but I saw the episode where unhappy people came back and confronted their tattoo artists that fucked them up and that dude was a total piece of shit to the guy who came back to complain. Yelled in his face like a bitch and then walked off (he blamed the guy for losing the competition because he wouldn't let him have free reign). Any way the point is I wouldn't be surprised if he decided to be a piece of shit and fuck it up

@@Shrimp_Insurance thought the same thing dude

Agree, the guy who did the grandma looked terrible

Aye as Phil said the judges play favourites constantly on this show, just listen to what some ex-Ink Master contestants have said. Most of the time the judges aren’t even around whereas the show makes it out as though they’re constantly circling the contestants and scrutinising the tattoos as they’re getting done.

"even if it didn't meet the challenge" thats why he went home, it didn't meet the challenge. Unfortunately kyles shitty tattoo did. Its not abt whether something looks good its abt if it meets the challenge or not.

​@@Iluveyuuit absolutely met the challenge especially more than the others.

yeah that was horrendous that that grandma tattoo didn't lose. that thing was horrendous

at least the first round of critiques should be judged blind imo. Like they’d still be able to identify some people based on their style in certain challenges probably, but it would be a little fairer

@@Dontrolling I'd be way more surprised that anyone thought all the drama was real. Christian and Cleen are the best drama queens, and they literally pitted them head to head in one season lol

Yes it is well known that they are misogynistic.

I’ve noticed this too. I admit that Lydia’s X-Men portrait looked kinda busted, but the critique about the knives was so fucking ridiculous lmfao

Biased against women No they are just bad judges and are biased for all sorts of reasons but dam sure not sexism U guys reach for everything

You're just mad your gamgam looks like the crypt keeper

I mean, maybe the guys glasses weren't quite perfect but at least it wasn't ugly...

Jrezky Good point.

@• angel bear • I could care less about the artists, I just think it was a stupid reason

Exactly. That looked nothing like the grandma

It's going to fade like shit so bad too. Maybe it's redeeming quality, it will be easy to cover up in a couple years.

It looks unbelievably bad lol I honestly was shocked by how fucking awful it was. The Warpath fail was God awful, but holy shit the pink one was worse

John C idk how that kind of stuff flies 😂😂

Roland is a terrible tattoo artist

I feel so bad for that person it’s on. The eyes look like the average third grader drew them

Yeah for it to go home over the grandma one was INSANE

It must have looked better in person cause that sucker looked awful on camera lol

Kyle said that in the earlier seasons the judges weren’t really judging fairly and that they wanted to send someone who they personally knew to the finale

@@4espair season 1 final showed me there were favorite shaine O'neal season 1 winner only did black and gray except 2 time one for the color chanlge one for the finale they didn't say anything but then when a color artist did color he would get penalized for it in the finale the person who took second place Tommy mostly know for tattoo nightmare had more versatile which they repeated post in the first 3 season than the season one winner ! Furthermore Novez one of the judges said his 6 hour tattoo out of the 12 and 6 they had to for the finale out of all 3 even the winner was favorite entire completion but he didn't win cause of one changle. Shain didn't have great tattoos the entire .

Not only did he put ever one of the wrinkles he added more and made her look even older and more.. well fuckin weird.

Same is honestly true in Photography too. Improved reality is what you shoot for sometimes and it isn't even a bad thing. Real reality is beautiful but sometimes you gotta tell reality to kick rocks.

Accuracy was the challenge I guess

Marz Oktober This is one reason I stopped watching Ink Master. The judging oftentimes has a very "rigged" feel about it. Jason's portrait may not have been perfect - the glasses were a bit off - but it was light years ahead of some of the others.

That was some BS

@@screenPhiles the shows all fake.

@@Black_Samurai-fish Yes and No? Sure, there's an aspect of it such shows that is rehearsed but you can't tell me they're in some instances doing weak tattoos on people because of a script. What's closer to true is that they're probably more made in the editing than having a script per se (which isn't to say that there's not a lot of manipulated content and rivalries aren't played up and made to be more dramatic than they are).

@@screenPhiles the tattoos are the only part that’s real.

exactly 😭

Dont get a portrait via inkmasters as easy as that

Glad I am not alone on that

That little girl tat was busted lol

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it’s so atrocious

You mean on the blink of tears?

I'd wanna get grandma leatherface covered up

I agree. I really liked Jason’s portrait of the guy with the hat & glasses.

Probably because the problem was the picture. The canvas should have realized it couldn’t possibly have looked good

@@roostermcscratch9060 you're saying she's an ugly grandma?

@@NP148 covered?! Laser that thing

Exactly. That's a niche skill, go seek out a specialist (and be willing to pay for it).

These are supposed to be the professionals though

@@cutycat0100 yeah but arent they getting the tattoo for free here

@@Musicanimedork01 they are, but they also own their own shops, or are established artists prior

@@cutycat0100 A lot of them are.. but in a specialization. I think they mean to pay for someone who specializes in portraits rather than say ask someone who specializes in new school or watercolor tattoos.

Omg I’m dying at this one 😂

I'd wanna get that covered up

What’s funny, is the tattoo is ugly and bad because it’s TOO good and TOO detailed

@@gabebarbieri194 while it is very detailed, he did seem to add in (or it ended up looking like he added in) a lot more fine lines in her face causing her to look even older and almost too clustered. But thats just my opinion.

Gabe Barbieri it’s too detailed but it’s not good

The protagonists knew that this is a TV Programm i think its their fault he even sayed its his second face portrait before he Was doing it

@@Xombic0780 lmao 😂 If dude behind wheel is idiot, it can be Casket 😂

yea it's the dude's fault. if it was so important he should've paid for it at a professional shop

Ink master is not the right place to get a tattoo period haha. Unless you are a canvas in the live finale

@@cvcofficial5399 I don't wanna be anyone's "canvas" tbh. Idk why they don't just call'em "volunteers," or "clients," "mystery customer" idk. Think of something better. Canvas sounds... like completely disconnected from humanity lmao

true but people want free tattoos and a chance to be on tv ig 🤷🏻‍♀️

To think now they have to wear that the rest of their lives. But hey... it's free, right? Yeah. Free and PERMANENT

Kyles tattoo was bad, but he did the detail. Jesses tattoo doesn’t look like the photo at all

Like they said, it's not aesthetically pleasing, but it's accurate. That was the challenge.

This is the best comment I have ever seen tbh 😂

And the muted cymbal 😭

🎻 beeeeeeeeeeeiiiiii

for real it's like a new Saw film

it’s actually a waterphone :-)

RIGHT! If I was to get a portrait I care about if it looks like the person. Fuck the detail! I was so heated! Ink Master can be so sexist at times 🙄

The face and the uniform look like they’re two totally different tattoos...

He should have gone home, he’s basic and boring

@@rudyz559 didn’t he win it all? He can tattoo really. Each tattoo artist will have bad tattoos

Lmao the lips

Or both

I agree. At first glance Duffy's looked exactly like that woman. That guy did the man's face with no proportion

I said the same. That was bullshit

they automatically send the woman home if shes against a man. nunez is a serial sexual assaulter, and oliver and alice in chains are airheads.

@@cocc_goblin wait seriously? SA?

They look like two different glasses glued together

Ohw poor grandma, she seems such a nice happy grandma

Same with me. When I watched that episode, I was tearing up seeing everyone judging that tattoo and saying she looked like Leatherface because that is just not okay to say that in front of that person.

Oh that makes me sad to hear 😞 I think it was a good tattoo. Maybe a bit “too” accurate but I dont think it was bad.

@@talynhastime9343 its not the worst tattoo ever but it suffers some mistakes that you can get away with in a drawing but maybe not a tattoo. Tattoos with heavy detail might heal fine a few days after but a year or two later is when you really see how the tattoo set in because the skin never really stops growing. Lines slowly fade over time but they can also kind of stretch and bleed and that can make fixing something without making it too dark a bit harder. If you look up aged tattoos 10-15 years later- you can see how much a tattoo can change over time!

@Vicar Amelia It looked like leatherface fresh, healed it's way better.

I think he tried darken the skin to at least try and hide the fact he made her chubby. But it ended up seriously hindering it.

Portrait tattoos usually look much darker when fresh. All the dark shading disappears after a couple of weeks

It was looking alright before he did the shading in the face. But him shrinking it down was a horrible choice.

They thought it was worse because you wouldn't know it was Warpath unless if the person told someone. With the Blink one, i think i would know that is Blink but it looks like a child drawing version of Blink.

I would be so embarrassed to have any of those portraits on my body. Completely agree, these look like first year art student drawings.

nah lydias was worse 💀💀

​@@artisticalex1206 hell I didn't even knew her but yet better atleast looks like a human hero

Especially on a show like this. Where there is a time restraint. Their just cheap assholes. Not wanting to spend a dime on big detailed pieces.

Plus if you get an injury or even a scar there, it’ll look fucked up. If you get fatter it’ll look fucked. If you lose weight, it’ll look fucked. It’s one of the #1 most fucked up tattoos during and after inking. I have a hard hole feeling bad for people who get portrait tattoos because in my mind, it doesn’t take much critical thinking to realize how easy it is for a face to look fucked.

Wrinkle sack...lmao 🤣

She actually liked it. I felt so bad that she had to listen to all the references to leather face.

I felt so bad watching that episode because she broke down crying in the human canvas jury room when they referred to it as leather face

@@jxenvyx wow that's so fucked up man

@@jxenvyx now that's good television

JXENVYX : _omg that’s sad. The judges of this show have no regard for the “canvases” which is why they call them that._

I think you should be judge

Dude's pictures look like a middle schoolers

Roland has amazing skills in traditional Hawaiian tattoos. That’s it though. Why he thought he could do everything is beyond me.

yup, "color isn't his forte", but everything on this tattoo is horrible. color has nothing to do with these eyes scribbled like made by 5 yo.

His first tattoo of the cat looked like my drunk buddy scratched the ink in, while in his basement

Most of these guys that win aren't "Ink Masters" because most of them can't tatt darker skin tones. How are you a "master" but can't tatt dark skinned people? 😂

The point of a portrait is that it has to be as exact as possible to the photo if the glasses are different that's a no no

I dont know much about this show, do the canvases get paid?

Caimen Grey No, the canvases do not get paid.

@@shelbymasters they must want to be on TV then, because oof, I would not sign up for this show.

Caimen Grey A chance at a great tattoo for free, and get to be on TV? sign me up lol

@@tp0tYT you should sign up your laser sessions too because most of the times the tatoos they get are shit

I would be surprised if that person left it unchanged till now though 😩

Or it could look like one big thumb print or like a completely different person

Their cheap dummies. Some of these would cost over a grand. Take longer to do right.

I agree. He didn't deserve to go home but luckily he won Ink Master in season 5

The whole show is cap 🧢

Bruh imo it was the best. I taking that one over Leatherface Grandma.

Literally everyone thought it sucked except that one judge

Ikr I don't get it, it's clearly not done well enough.

@@scaryomelette353 the mom actually loved the piece. It was so hard to watch when the one guy on the human canvas jury kept saying it looked like leather face. This happened before the judges even made the comment. The mom and daughter broke down in tears because the guy wouldn’t stop saying it.

@@GhostDrummer I hated all of the episodes where they had a human canvas jury. They all loved trash talking the tattoos.

@@DD-d6d3 Exactly, there was this one lady shit talking somebody's Empire state building because it was "ugly" its a building? It looks like a building. How it's supposed to, because dude *asked* for it, then one the jury said it was bad, he decided it was bad because it was "just copied off Google". I'm sorry, is he supposed to go to NY, take his own picture, and come back in the middle of a timed competition? That's how reference photos work, especially specific buildings and shit

I’m confused what’s wrong w it 😂

@@ThatNoFbody-ch9ky its basically 30 minutes too long! 😂 there shouldn’t be this much footage of absolute dire fuckups

Superkoopatrooper I think they meant the length of the VIDEO 😂

@@superkoopatrooper4879 in their defense these are some of the best artist in the world. In their own shop they knock all these tats out the park or would simply decline to do it. Unfortunately for them ink master is meant to take you out your comfort zone and they folded

Yep maybe go over the line of the teeth with white to lighten them up. NEVER outline teeth

I have studied graphic design and I'm still trying to understand what he expected there to happen when he fattened her face to bend around the curve. It absolutely makes no sense. Such a weird choice. In particular when the canvas deliberately said, that he didn't want that to happen.

None of the ink masters know basic anatomy so they're not jack of all trades.

@@antiochorontes6374 ikr. This show isnt exactly reputable. You can go to your local shop and find better artists than most of these contestants.

Well said

not really, most bc of social media most tattoo artists are allowed to specialize and cultivate their own aesthetic, tattoo artists only needed to do everything back when there weren’t as many avenues to see a tattoo artists work before you walk in. Even if you look at past winners ig feeds, they obviously specialize in one aesthetic that they have mastered. saying that ink master represents the best of tattooing is like saying American idol is the pinnacle of singing. Is pony lawson a bad tattooer because he focuses on doing micros, is kelly doty a bad tattooer because she focuses on new school?

I know right, Krusemans is sooooo bad! Looks like he’s never ever drawn a face before.

Kruseman’s tattoo looks like is melting because that’s how the picture looks Duffy’s tattoo looks nothing like the reference and its not accurate at all

Kruseman’s looks like a kid in a military uniform.

@@CharizardMaster69 yeah it really does

You are stupid the other two hardly look like the reference. The leatherface grandma is only ugly becase its so damn accurate.

@@catlover7466 that sounded so mean 😂

@@catlover7466 no, you are stupid. Leather granny wasn't near what the picture showed.

My mom is a pet portrait artist too!

@@Blueberryyymuffin how neat!