Combination of all of the above. The ratio, however, is completely unknown.

True.

Personally I think it's mostly luck and circumstance.

i think its 10% luck 20% skill and 15 % power of will

Nah, the percentage is way too low on luck. :P

I thought this too, but there's plenty of times where I see people who are inactive for months on end come back and upload something and still pull an impressive amount of interest.

It doesn't seem to work for me when I do have things to upload often. :/

Extensive key words also work. A lot of people just trawl FA by putting in one or two keywords in search and looking at what they get.

Really? Keywords work?

'Cause there's some things I have used plenty of keywords on but they don't have better results than the ones I don't. Plus people seem to use the keywords for random, silly messages instead of their intended purpose but it seems to have no effect on whether or not people pay attention to what they make.

Yup all the above, lots of hard work and putting your name everywhere, lots of networking and post a lot of art.

Post a lot. As much as you can. This is probably the most important.

Do art trades with other artists. (seriously, this has helped me a lot)

Be active on other social media sites that the fandom frequents. I know that I have a lot of success with posting some WIPs and finished pieces on my Twitter account. (If you already post on twitter, tell me your UN please!) People retweet it and thats a great way to increase your audience, and get more people to follow you.

Have a unique style. Generally, the more stylized, the better. But you pretty much have this part down (: <3

I always felt like my art style was a bit generic "Disney-ish". ^^; I like it enough, but it could be pushed a bit more.

I do tend to post WIPs on Instagram and Twitter. I've just gotten back into using twitter a few months ago. My name on there is SombraMalamutt.

I'm definitely trying to draw more, but I can only work so fast.

t-shirt. i print kellster or beetlejuice on a t-shirt and people are like oooh. or i make a kellster hat. and people are

like oooh. that's how i get my art seen. i wear it. ^^

Be everywhere! It's a mess to have to maintain 5-6 different artsites, but its helped me a little : D

...That's about it to be completely honest. I myself am trying to 'get there' so I cant really offer too much input.

I post here and that's pretty much it. Though, interest in my art seems to be waning in terms of comments. Sometimes even faves are going down in count.