They're admittedly fun to draw, and here's the thing... If I do some Parodyverse artwork then some 7-30 people see it (judging by the page counters) and I get 4-7 comments about it.

If I draw some ponies with my free time, it would seem that tens or hundreds of thousands of people see it. In the 24 hours since I first posted that poker picture to my gallery, it has been visited over 18,500 times, the larger version of it has been downloaded over 3000 times, 1700+ people have added it to their own Deviant Art pages and 237 people have left me comments on it.

In order to even find their way to my gallery page, people would have had to have seen the picture elsewhere on the internet and clicked through the credit link back to my gallery page. I have trouble imagining that even 10% of the people who have seen the picture go so far as to do that. It was on the front page of the main fan site Equestria Daily, which sees a few million hits a week. It's been reposted to a bunch of message boards, is being passed around social networking sites like Tumblr (and likely others which Google doesn't search) and generally popping up in all sorts of odd places online.

So it's being put in front of a lot of eyes, which is good for my ego. Since I already have a paying job drawing stuff, feedback and fan response is the best thing any hobby drawing can offer me. Pony fans are a huge, ravenous artistic community. There's an insane amount of original music, animation, video games, artwork and stories based on ponies, seemingly just because they're likeable and, ultimately, why the hell not.

As a result, I seem to turn out a new pony drawing once a month. Don't know how long that will last, but I'm enjoying myself.