The artist's name is Jeff Kandyba. He said it definitely isn't as easy as it looks. He says, "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."