How does one create a universally appealing piece?

99.9% luck.

>>2740743
>How does one create a universally appealing piece?
It's impossible. Nothing in art or taste is completely universal.

>>2740743

Be good at drawing conventionally attractive women and men.

>>2740743
So universally appealing or just popular?

Ones impossible, the other just requires skill, patience, perseverance, and it really helps to have charisma on top.

Basically spam your artwork on every platform, don't make stuff that's too alienating or bland, actively engage your audience and peers - cultivate an audience - and be good at what you do. It'll take a couple of years, and you do need to actively engage, you can't comfortably half-arse it on a per-week basis.

>>2740746
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUBRnXdM2DE

"Yes, sex sells, but it is only one of the five characteristics that marketing has found that makes a product, especially an impulse buy product, interesting and enticing to the general market.

I always learned the five characteristics as the Five-A's.
* Attractive : Cuteness, infant-like, softness, etc.
* Appealing : Iconic, representative of self, self-identity, etc.
* Authority : Power, action, violence, good vs evil, etc.
* Amusing : Comedy, silliness, lighhearted, etc.
* Arousing : Sexy or sexual, enticing, emotional trigger, etc.

Find the right combination of one or more of the above, and you _may_ have a successful product.

The characteristics are not all equal players. Some like authority and arousal (violence and sex) tend to work at all levels. While others like attractive (cute) or amusing (comedy) take more work to reach a broad enough base. "