The iPad is big and bright and beautiful, so of course you want to draw all over it with your fingers. To facilitate that understandable urge, here are a couple of high-profile sketch products.

The app offers personalised step-by-step tutorials on how to draw a range of subjects, from still life to everyday objects to portraits of famous people.

Art Academy Sketchpad will let gamers create their own drawings and post them to Miiverse. It will include selected features from the upcoming, full Wii U game, which will include lessons for artists.

Bohemian Coding has released Sketch, a new vector drawing app for OS X that features a minimalist design and offers a drawing space of unlimited size and layers.rn ...