If a teacher requests from a student to draw something possessing a soul

Question: In some schools it is requested from the students to draw living creatures or they are given for example, a picture of part of a chicken and they are ordered to complete the rest. Sometimes it is requested from them to cut out such pictures and glue them onto a sheet, or they are given a picture and are requested to colour it. What is your opinion concerning this? May Allah protect you. Sheikh Uthaymeen raḥimahullāh responds: My opinion is that it is forbidden and it should be prevented. It is obligatory upon those who are responsible in education to fulfil their trust concerning this and prevent such matters. If they want to establish the intelligence of a student, they could instruct him to draw a car, a tree or something similar to these, which are encompassed by his knowledge. They could assess his intelligence and application in problems by this. This is what the people have been tested with by means of the devil, for otherwise there is no difference concerning drawing, between that a person should draw a picture of a tree, car or palace or that of a human being. I see it as being obligatory upon those responsible to prevent these matters. If the student is put to trial and he must produce something then he should draw an animal with no head. [Majmu' Fataawa wa Rasaa'il ash-Sheikh: 3/157]