PARINIRVANA, MOGAO CAVE 158, MIDDLE TANG DYNASTY (781–848).
Credit Seattle Art Museum, Journey to Dunhuang: Buddhist Art of the Silk Road Caves http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/exhibitions/dunhuang
The assignment required sketching a piece of art without tracing. I utilized Illustrator artboards to place the image of the sculpture next to a blank slate and used eye-hand coordination and the pen tool to draw what I was seeing.