Taylor Swift Is Too Pretty For A Decent Courtroom Sketch

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 13: Taylor Swift attends the 2013 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at Lexington Avenue Armory on November 13, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 13: Taylor Swift attends the 2013 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at Lexington Avenue Armory on November 13, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret) /
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Taylor Swift’s courtroom sketch went viral last week amid her groping trial with David Mueller and in an new interview, the artist is defending his work.

After several fans of the singer slammed the portrait, claiming it looked nothing like the “Wildest Dreams” singer, Jeff Kandyba spoke out, claiming that because Swift is so beautiful, she is a difficult person to sketch.

“A person like Taylor Swift — who is very pretty, has perfectly proportioned dimensions on the face — is actually much harder [to sketch],” Kandyba told FOX31 Denver in an interview on Monday, August 14, via a report by Us Weekly. “Everybody’s got little idiosyncrasies about them that you want to pick up on.”

Taylor Swift’s fans believed Katy Perry was behind the odd sketch

“I think the artist’s name is Katheryn Hudson,” one Twitter user wrote after the sketch began circulating on the web days ago, citing Katy Perry’s birth name.

“It’s hard. Some people are just much easier to draw than others,” said Kandyba. “If you give me somebody with a beard and glasses — bingo, got it.”

To prepare for the groping trial, Kandyba spent weeks preparing in hopes of nailing the assignment.

“It made me very nervous going into it,” he admitted. “That’s why I did practice sketches ahead of time.”

Taylor Swift donated her $1 million to victims of assault

“I acknowledge the privilege that I benefit from in life, in society and in my ability to shoulder the enormous cost of defending myself in a trial like this. My hope is to help those whose voices should also be heard,” she said in a statement to Us Weekly. Therefore, I will be making donations in the near future to multiple organizations that help sexual assault victims defend themselves.”