Sketching is a 100% rules-free art practice that only requires something to mark on (traditionally, a sketchbook) and something to mark with (pen, pencil, pastels, paint, markers, you name it).

In fact, Brourman’s courtroom art came about as a way of trying to make sense of a narrative. Trained as a fine artist, she was sketching in her studio in Brooklyn and watching the livestream of ...