Metrification 001

Success is a tricky term to define. Many would say sales and I cannot and will not dismiss that, but I am curious which art has performed best. Are there any trends to be observed? And what I do and how I perform may vary over time, so I want to gaugerecent success... not what I had done three months ago... might as well be a lifetime ago. One month. 50+ Faves.

Note 1: 50+ is a benchmark relevant for me. Based on what I have accomplished in the past. Some artists that are newer or with fewer watchers might find 50 too high. Others, like someone named... oh, I don't know, CJ... get that many (and more) in one night. So 50+ for her would be meaningless. It's about what applies to the specific artist. But for me... 50 is a good benchmark. And over one month? Twelve at 50+. Enough to hopefully show a trend and not too many to be redundant/meaningless. My Top Dozen for the last 30 days...

Note 2: How quickly a deviation reaches 50+ would be useful... but DeviantArt is not designed for real data analysis (understatement!)... and I do not have that data (I need to consider that but for now...) so the best I can do is consider what I call Speed which is the number of faves divided by the art age in days. Over 30 days, this stat becomes meaningless as activity is all but dead... a week would be better although not many are 50+ after 1 week but it is still useful for trend analysis and I will revisit that...

Sofia Storm
Age: 29 days
Faves: 70
Views: 1.7K
Faves per 1.0K Views: 41.2

Speed: 2.4
DALL-E3: Yes
Sold: Yes (thank you, @Anaflowerheart )
Keywords: Female, Closeup

PT Boat
Age: 29 Days
Faves: 77
Views: 1.0K
Faves per 1.0K Views: 77.0

Speed: 2.7
DALL-E3: Yes
Sold: Yes (thanks again, Ana)
Keywords: Vehicle, Naval, Fern

Fern Forever!
Age: 28 Days
Faves: 52

Views: 1.3K

Faves per 1.0K Views: 40.0

Speed: 1.9

DALL-E3: Yes
Sold: Yes (thanks @BalloonPrincess )

Keywords: Female, Tightsuit, Fern

Desperately Seeking...
Age: 24 Days
Faves: 52

Views: 979

Faves per 1.0K Views: 53.1

Speed: 2.2

DALL-E3: Yes
Sold: No (posted specifically as free art)

Keywords: Female, Blenke, Booty

Orbiter Ascent..
Age: 20 Days
Faves: 69

Views: 850

Faves per 1.0K Views: 81.2

Speed: 3.5

DALL-E3: Yes
Sold: Yes (thank you, @madcat52b )

Keywords: Vehicle, Aerospace, Fern

Heavy Mecha
Age: 16 Days
Faves: 74

Views: 1.4K

Faves per 1.0K Views: 52.9

Speed: 4.6

DALL-E3: Yes
Sold: Yes (thanks again, Ana )

Keywords: Vehicle, Mecha, Fern

Light Mecha
Age: 14 Days
Faves: 62

Views: 938

Faves per 1.0K Views: 66.1

Speed: 4.4

DALL-E3: Yes
Sold: Yes (thanks CJ @Thekobs ... whom I mention a lot in comments )

Keywords: Vehicle, Mecha, Fern

The MAD DOG™ Mecha
Age: 12 Days
Faves: 62

Views: 1.2K

Faves per 1.0K Views: 51.7

Speed: 5.2

DALL-E3: Yes
Sold: Yes (Thanks, @MadDogMooreStudio )

Keywords: Vehicle, Mecha, Fern

Pride of Ganymede
Age: 11 Days
Faves: 58

Views: 974

Faves per 1.0K Views: 59.6

Speed: 5.3

DALL-E3: Yes
Sold: Yes (thanks, @RD500YPVS )

Keywords: Vehicle, Naval(/Aerospace), Fern

Pride of Ganymede Variant
Age: 10 Days
Faves: 57

Views: 929

Faves per 1.0K Views: 61.4

Speed: 5.7

DALL-E3: Yes
Sold: Yes (thanks, @thebarwell )

Keywords: Vehicle, Naval(/Aerospace), Fern

You're Staring!
Age: 8 Days
Faves: 50

Views: 929

Faves per 1.0K Views: 53.8
Speed: 6.25

DALL-E3: No
Sold: Yes (thanks again, @thebarwell )

Keywords: Female, Blenke, Booty, Citadel

Patrol Skimmer

Age: 3 Days
Faves: 74

Views: 1.5K

Faves per 1.0K Views: 49.3
Speed: 24.7

DALL-E3: Yes
Sold: Yes (thanks @ttolaatuf )

Keywords: Vehicle, Surface(/Hover), Fern
Noteworthy: My 7th most popular deviation on the Blenke page and in a quick 3 days is very impressive!

Okay, that's the raw data... Any trends or observations?

• 8 of the 12 are vehicular. While my recent What works best poll? had zero votes for vehicular art:

  

...it seems obvious to me that polls may only be relevant to some watchers and my vehicles gather a lot of non-watcher clicks...

• The remaining four are females: Two Blenke booty shots, one Rissa and one close-up of the artist. Close-ups generally seem to do well, period. Blenke and her booty as well as Rissa can do well.. or not. I suppose that depends on whether the art is good or not in the eyes of the community. I'm not what I consider as overqualified to assess that in the curation stage. I fully understand some Blenkes, Rissas and vehicles will do badly. But about these women...

  • Quick observations: Not showing skin! Others can do well with lots of skin. Clearly that is not my thing based on community response. Tight fabric on the other hand is generally appreciated.

  • Reasonable proportions! The women in question should not be more curvaceous than shown in the above images.
    
    And about what really works...
    
    

• And that clearly is in good vehicular art.

  • Like Patrol Skimmer which is 70+ in 3 days

  • Like Pride of Ganymede which did well (50+ faves) and then a reasonably similar variant one day later also goes 50+. Clearly something resonated there.

  • Like three mechs submitted in a five day period - Heavy, Light, Mad Dog - gather almost 200 (198 to be precise) faves

  • If Vehicular Art is not my focus, it should be!
    
    

You might think I should compare those that succeed versus those that fail... and that would be useful. The challenge there is considering more than just numbers but actual artistic composition and the like. I think that someone like CJ - yes, I mentioned her earlier, smart and talented woman - would be better suited for that as she actually understands art details. My efforts would be... rudimentary... like a cavewoman... in comparison.

But maybe that should be the next step...?