Excerpts from the artist's description (see source) follow:

"[…] What’s the cutie mark you ask? It’s an animator’s board or drawing board if you want to call it that. […]"

"[…] The sketch design on the paper of the cutie mark has a tendency to change based on what she is thinking about. But the image will always look like a basic circle/shape/skeletal sketch. It is never a complete drawing.

Why so many colors in the mane? I don’t know. Really. I mean red is my favorite color. The red fill in HAIR 4 is the shade of red I like most. But I also find pure cyan and true blue to be gorgeous. Orange and yellow oranges are wonderful, beautiful and underused colors as well. And I like them. […]"

Originally posted on 2014-Jan-19, at 14:04:00 PST.