Ruling on drawing the face of the patient before doing cosmetic surgery on him
Question

                My question is with regards to the drawing of inanimate objects. I work as a doctor, and often we see patients with injuries/deficits etc on the face and therefore have to draw the face with features in the medical records to highlight these injuries etc.

I had read that it is forbidden to draw the face/facial features. In the case of medical records, to document injuries and so forth, would this be permissible Islamically? I cannot undo what I have now done, and am worried about the consequences of my actions.
Praise be to Allah.It is 
      not permissible to draw or photograph animate beings such as humans, birds 
      or animals. This has been discussed previously in the answer to question 
      no. 8954. 
An 
    exception is made from that in cases of necessity, such as photographs for 
    passports or ID cards, or photographs of criminals and the like. 
That 
    also includes what you have mentioned of drawing or photographing the face 
    and whatever deformities or injuries are in it before doing surgery, and 
    keeping the picture in the medical records. This is a case of necessity, in 
    addition to the fact that the picture is incomplete. But in that case it 
    should be limited to a photograph and should not be drawn, because drawing 
    is more haraam than photography; the majority of fuqaha’ are of the view 
    that it is forbidden to draw animate beings, whereas in the case of 
    photography, there is a well-known difference of opinion among contemporary 
    scholars concerning it. 
Shaykh 
    Muhammad ibn Ibraaheem Aal al-Shaykh (may Allah have mercy on him) said: 
If the 
    picture is incomplete, such as a picture of the face or head or chest, and 
    so on, and something is removed from the picture that represents a part of 
    the body without which there can be no life, then the words of many fuqaha’ 
    indicate that it is permissible, especially if there is a need for that, 
    which is partial depiction. Whatever the case, people should fear Allah as 
    much as they are able to and should avoid that which Allah and His Messenger 
    have forbidden.
“And 
    whosoever fears Allaah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him 
    to get out (from every difficulty).

    3. And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine”
[al-Talaaq 
    65:2-3]
End 
    quote from Fataawa al-Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ibraaheem, 1/167. 
And Allah knows best.