Mr. Drastal is covered in green fur, the look that has come to define the holiday antihero originally created by Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr.
Depicted lounging on a red couch, with a rose between his teeth, Mr. Drastal instead has the hat right between, and just below, his hips.
The Facebook post has accumulated more than 70,000 comments since it went up.
Mr. Drastal has reposted the images, which he also sells as prints, each year around the holidays.
On Instagram, anyone can achieve a similar transformation with a “Cute Grinch” filter created by Manuel Borrero, which adds luminescent green skin, long, curly eyebrows, bright green eyes and thick black lashes to a selfie.
For those who think of the Grinch as an unattractive character with a bad attitude, his turn as an object of desire may be unexpected.
“He’s like an anarchist, jaded sad boy,” said Meggie Gates, 27, a freelance writer and comedian in Chicago, who explored the Grinch’s sex appeal in detail in a Cosmopolitan article earlier this month.
“He’s a bad boy,” said Mr. Baeza, who added that he plays up the Grinch’s sass during his performances and even flirts with his audience.
“There’s something taboo about thinking he’s sexy,” said Keaghlan Ashley, 32, a prosthetic makeup artist in Anaheim, Calif., who worked with Mr. Drastal on his Grinch photo shoot.
“With everything going on with climate change and the different variants, you do feel hopeless in the face of the holiday where you’re supposed to have so much cheer,” Mx.
It’s this relatability that has perhaps been the biggest catalyst in the Grinch’s sexual evolution.