Gathen

Gathen is a character in my first Silvath book; he's really old and I think he dies not long after that without getting used again. =P He was originally a very powerful wizard, but he got really old and basically started putting all his strength into a potion that kept him alive longer- he felt he had something he needed to be alive to do. As it turned out, there was, but it was a very long time before that came along. And he gets a very long beard and semi-baldness just 'cause I could. =P

Gathen is a Rayan, although he long ago lost his feathers (if I ever upload a pic of Byrin, I'll explain this), but a Rayan's bond (always a bird, although the exact kind varies) lives as long as its human. If the human dies before the bird's normal life span would be up, the bird just goes wild again and won't bond again, but if the human outlives the birds normal lifespan, the bird dies when its human does... so his owl most definitely died when he did. But right now, she's alive. x3

Anyways, to explain his eyes (in case you were wondering...), his potion did have some backfires, and one of them was blinding him; it pretty-much erased all color in his eyes... I dunno about pupils but I didn't draw them here.

Drew it during BYC... so I guess somewhere between half an hour to an hour, .5 mechanical pencil