The artist's name is Jeff Kandyba. He said it definitely isn't as easy as it looks. Quote, "A person like Taylor Swift, who's very pretty . . . [and] has perfectly proportioned dimensions on the face . . . is actually much harder [to sketch] . . .
"Everybody's got little idiosyncrasies about them that you want to pick up on. It's hard. Some people are just much easier to draw than others. If you give me somebody with a beard and glasses . . . bingo . . . [I] got it."