She currently has 346,000 followers on her Instagram and a quick scroll through her feed explains why. As the artist is constantly improving her skills and distinctive style, we are bringing her new cartoon drawings to the table. Kiryakova has penned realistic drawing ideas of nearly everyone – from modern pop idols such as Billy Eilish, Ariana Grande and Rihanna to icons we dearly miss such as Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury or David Bowie.

Lera Kiryakova started working with pen and ink but she has been experimenting with different types of illustration mediums since – oil, watercolor, pencils, markers, you name it… And it seems that she has mastered them all! She has recently been exploring the digital universe and coming up with beautiful drawings created with a Wacom tablet and Adobe Photoshop. She invites her audience to the behind-the-scenes of her work process by sharing thorough tutorials on her YouTube channel.