Ive seen a lot of people getting ghosted by their clients. I wanna share some precautions that i do to avoid it to happen.

a thread on HOW TO AVOID GETTING GHOSTED/ SCAM BY CLIENTS:

1. Ask them to pay the first half before starting.

Even if your work is as cheap as 100 pesos or 5 dollars. ASK THEM TO PAY HALF.

2. Put a "Commission Watermark"

Overlay and Lower Opacity to your commission watermark. You can put : unpaid, semi-paid, commission by ____. As much as possible, make your watermark as big as the commission you are doing so other artist wont finish it and fall into their trap.

3. Send your unfinished work in low quality

If your only updating your client, send the lowest quality possible. Enough to be seen but cannot be enlarged and be printed in high quality.

4. Lastly, DONT TRUST ANYONE

even if they are half paid, your family, friends, etc, DONT send the HD and finished version of ur art if they are not fully paid.

5. OPTIONAL, put your face as watermark

char un but if you have extra trust issues you can put ur face sa work mo

The ghosting might still happen if you do the steps always but i want you to take extra precaution on making commissions. I hope this helps!

Btw, i am hosting an art raffle for a cause. Donations will be directed to the public school and teachers ~~

I would really appreciate this if you would join/ rt it

please see thread for more info https://twitter.com/peculiarmunchkn/status/1298949074008150016?s=19