Well, I figured as much. I made this post to at least verify it.

That.

"Why don't I get the attention other people do with I do X" is something that gets asked a lot here and I'm almost always hesitant to say this, but that doesn't make it less right.

If you aren't becoming popular with the content you're posting, it's time to re-evaluate your content and/or your advertising strategy. Identifying ways you can improve is good anyway to further yourself as an artist and improving your art will get you a bigger following.

Something I can point out right now is that the skins you've posted, OP, don't demonstrate color theory and are somewhat difficult to look at. I'm guilty of this in a lot of my stuff because it's not something I started working on until very recently. When you've used color theory correctly, the colors used in a piece-- regardless of if it's a skin or a painting or something else-- are much more harmonic and pleasant to view.

For example, this skin primarily uses two different colors with varying shades of those colors. One is a warm red and the other is a cool grey. These two colors are not complimentary and they're both from different halves of the color wheel. If you were to use a grey and a red here, you'd want to use a warm red and a warm grey or a cool red and a cool grey. Here are some quick examples.



The bottom colors are close to the ones seen in the skin you posted, though I didn't color pick to get the exact ones used. The outline colors are tints of the greys used here so you can more easily see their bias. The top one is very orange, the middle is just slightly purple-y with a blue bias and the bottom has a lot of blue.

Something else is your skin shading. Pillow shading-- while better than noise or no shading at all in most cases-- isn't very interesting to look at. Unless you're skinning the Michelin man or the Pillsbury Doughboy, pillow shading is both unrealistic and lazy. I'd start studying how light falls on every day objects as well as depictions of light in other mediums. Studying other people's depictions of light in pixel art and sprites might be especially helpful here since the space, color, and pixel constraints are similar.

Not necessarily fame... just approval. I haven't created a skin in over two years. I did enjoy it, but the lack of reward deterred me and I ended up feeling like it was a lost cause. Doing something you love is a lot more appealing when someone else is there to encourage you along the way.