So I have had a bunch of artists come out of the wood work asking if I would like a to commission them, I ended up doing too much at one time. Most of the artists that I met are very nice and I was able to make payments. so here are some lessons I learned recently.

The first lesson is to check the gallery and any socials they have. The reason is that I trusted an artist by the name of Andrea Santos, only to later on looked into the person and even looked on his twitter and realized that he might have scammed others including me. To make sure, I showed my boyfriend, which is a actual professional artist / "popufur" and he agreed to what I was thinking as well.

The second lesson is to make sure you time out the commissions properly to insure that you have the money or if the artist let you make payments then make sure you keep track of that. a good application that I have used to do this task is borg calendar, google calendar also works.

The third lesson is to never accept a commission when a artist asks if you want one. this is what I should have said, " I'll commission you when i am ready".

The fourth lesson is to stick with artists you trust.

In short this week has been one very big lesson in to managing the commissions I have ordered and to be more carful. Thank you all for reading my short , but dumb, experience. I felt kind of dumb about all this, lol.