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Ice Star
Magical Inkwell - Wrote MLP fanfiction consisting of at least around 1.5k words, and has a verified link to the platform of their choice
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Delightful Demon
@Burger King Leonidas  
I don’t doubt that they’re creative, but porn isn’t really my thing and I’m not familiar with their work. I meant it more along the lines of a facetious expression to how despite derpi being amazingly great at gathering horse art all in one location, of all the art that tends to garner attention here, it’s usually porn.
thps48
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
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Wallet After Summer Sale -

Young Leosword
The ultimate premise is essentially what Hollywood has been doing foreverz: Sex sells. This does not mean high quality art with shading and colour and resolution and pudding pops is universally worse than prawn, it just means prawn is more noticeable. Either way, the number of upvotes qualitative art recieves is irrelevant as long as at the least one person says you have skill.
 
Then, the aforementioned improving skill thing after drawing a fuckton. :3
Background Pony #C566
@Pagan  
I don’t much care how much porn is on here or how popular it is; I just want people to stop making the ludicrous claim that an image’s popularity is only marginally determined by whether it’s porn or not.
Pagan

Gay Viking
I’m just going to go ahead and say it who the hell cares? Are you going to start telling artists who draw porn to stop? No? then don’t complain if people want to like porn they can there’s nothing wrong with that and it’s easily filtered on this site. Porn could make up 90% of the sites art and wouldn’t matter people who complain about the porn are just complaining for the sake of complaining.
Background Pony #C566
@redweasel  
Half of them aren’t porn. Which means half of them are. Which means that porn, currently making up well under 20% of the images on this site, is disproportionately represented in the top-scoring images. Which means…
 
Drawings that display personality are also popular, true, which explains the high score of the grainy, low-color gif animation in your example. Though, again, the most popular personality for any character is “horny as fuck”.
MetaKnight145

That is for popularity only, yes.  
But if you want a loyal and dedicated following you gotta draw something that few others draw and you have to draw it good and draw a bunch of them.  
For example: Anonn and his bimbos.
Background Pony #C566
Two consecutive Zecora images illustrate OP’s point pretty well:  
 
Currently at 26 faves, 39 upvotes.  
 
Currently at 84 faves, 116 upvotes, 3 downvotes.  
Of course, there are other differences between the images that could explain the disparity in popularity: color vs. black & white, pony vs. anthropomorphic, scenery vs. blank space…
ArrJaySketch
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Thread Starter - Started a thread with over 100 pages
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Birthday Cake - Celebrated MLP's 7th birthday
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The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Long, long ago, someone in another fandom suggested that there are several ideas that help artwork out greatly:
 
  • Sex appeal  
  • Humor  
  • Cuteness  
  • Aesthetic (usually a little harder to acheive)  
  • Art that tells a story
     
    Art that works using one (or combinations of these) is way more interesting to look at than just a safe picture of a character standing around. (Atryl does a great job at cute art that tells a story, for instance.) It’s interesting plugging in “score.gte:200” to see which category or categories all the higher scoring art falls into.
     
    It’s something I want to to strive for in my own artwork. I’ve been guilty of just having characters sitting around. It’s boring to look at. With “cute” and “funny” artwork, it usually takes a little more effort to have the piece be interesting, imho.
Background Pony #293C
Well yeah. Porn sells and is honestly pretty radical, but don’t discount the tons of safe images with an absolute ton of upvotes. They’re just really good art.
 
Also man, coming from a porn artist it really helps your anatomy. Badly drawn anatomy in porn looks waaaaaay worse than safe.
Background Pony #5243
It’s kinda true tho. Most of the art I do that takes 6+ hours gets around 40 to 80 favs where as I drew pron like once and it got over 200