So things I've discovered about earning more views and favorites:
1. You earn about 8 views for the brief moment you're shown on the front page
2. Fan art earns at 5 times the rate of my generic original works
3. Mature content or showing more skin does not garner more views
4. The more detail the picture has, the better
The solution then is to draw something 1000% moe with very high detail and submit it to a fanclub.