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digital drawing of Caleb and Essek from Critical Role, done in shades of mint green and dark reddish brown. Caleb is a taller human with long hair in a messy bun, a full beard and freckles. Essek is a shorter drow with short curly hair and small pointed ears; he is wearing a nondescript loose shirt over a turtleneck and a couple of rings, a wide bangle, and an ear cuff. the couple are depicted from the chest up, with Caleb leaning slightly down to kiss Essek on the apple of his cheek, his arm around Essek's back as if to catch him, while Essek is resting his hand on Caleb's neck and throat.ALT

starting off my shadowgast kiss meme with a cheek kiss 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

Essek was the leader of the cheek kiss poll for a good while, but right at the end Caleb took off and won by just ten votes! the whole poll made me think that i can easily picture Essek defaulting to cheek kisses rather than kisses on the lips as an expression of romantic affection, and i also chuckled a bit at the thought that Caleb going for a demure cheek kiss rather than some mouth-on-mouth action when they said goodbye at the Grove might have even scored him some brownie points with Essek 🤭

also while i was working on this one i was reminded of the first shadowgast picture i ever drew, which was also Caleb kissing Essek on the cheek! it was very fun to compare the two and see that the way i draw the wizards hasn’t changed much at all. i really had a clear picture of them in mind from the start didn’t i LOL

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