Agree, but a longer blog could have been nicer

Interesting, good luck with your skins! :)

although i skin for fun. i do find it a bit annoying when they get about 0 views

I only skin because I love doing and it buys me a place in this awesome community, as well as tons of great friends. Only skin if you love it, too

Another guy submitted this kind of blog, like a week ago... I'll answer you the same thing:

Getting popular/download/diamond/sub by skinning is the hardest way: just check the stats:
-560k skins
-180k projects
-the rest is between 5 and 80k.

I think that those stats just explain your problem: there are so many skinner, and even if your skins are good, they're unviewed because of the amount of other -good- skins realeased in the same time.

So, to answer to your ask, if you wanna get popular/viewed/sub/diamonded, yes skinning is a waste of time. Only skinners that don't waste their time are mods/first skinners/well known youtuber.

meh.

It's that one popular submission that gets ya going.

Improve your skins.
Advertise your skins here, www.planetminecraft.com/chat/ (read the rules).

Yeah. It sucks when you make something and people don't look at it. That's how everyone starts off. Nobody gets 'popular' over night.
I looked at tutorials and improved, and eventually people started to like my skins.

Put your time into learning where to place shades, how to pick colours and highlights instead of making a blog complaining.