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six digital colored headshots of Essek Thelyss from Critical Role, who is a drow with light lavender skin and periwinkle eyes. each drawing depicts him with a different short hairstyle (short wavy bangs, long curled bangs, wavy with a side-part, an undercut with a heap of curls on top, straight hair in a neat side-part, short finger waves) and various nearly white shades of hair (snowy blue, grey-ish pink, light blond, pastel purple, almost pure white and a warm-toned off-white).ALT

after exploring various flavors of redhead with colored Caleb sketches i couldn’t help but do the same with Essek 🤭 i know his hair has been described simply as ‘white’, but my personal headcanon is something slightly warmer (the one in the bottom right-hand corner!). i think farmboy dirt wizard Caleb could definitely compare it to the color of unbleached linen or something, like the hopeless and incredibly silly romantic he is

anyway, i thought i could also play with Essek’s hairstyles here a bit like i did with Caleb! Essek drives me crazy with how difficult his hair is to draw and i still haven’t settled on something specific (though i’ve been recently defaulting to the upper left-hand style). at this point it’s part of my headcanon that Essek simply changes his hairstyle depending on what he’s in the mood for that day

(also, here’s another permanent Essek headcanon of mine: he has a naturally asymmetrical upper lip)

let me know your favorite shade of Essek hair in the tags! 🤭