re: "My client did not pay me for the work"
As a GENERAL principle:
It is inappropriate for a client to simply "not pay" you for your work.
A client who does this is behaving unprofessionally, unethically, and immorally.
However, this specific case has some unusual characteristics. The focus now needs to be on the freelancer and her mistakes.
re: "I am a new on Upwork and I found an interesting job just as a start. I was assigned to do illustrations for this client and I said that if she does not like them she has no responsibility to pay me"
You were wrong to say that.
That is NOT how Upwork is intended to be used.
I believe that you made serious mistakes in the way that you used Upwork.
In the future, do not work for free.
And do not offer to work for free.
If a client hires you to do a task, then the client should pay you for doing that task.
Regardless of whether or not the client claims to "like" or "dislike" your work.
You have no way of reading a client's mind.
You should never say that a client doesn't like your work.
How can you know?
You can't.
The only thing that you now is that a client CLAIMS she didn't like your work.
A client may be lying about that in order to get the work for free.
I believe that you should STOP communicating with this client completely.
You should STOP thinking about the work that you did for her.
You should never again try to get any money from this specific project.
From what I can tell, you made two key mistakes:
- You worked without a contract; so there is no way for you to get paid
- You told a client that if she does not "like" your work, she does not need to pay for it
Leave this in the past.
Focus now on learning how to use Upwork properly.
Please feel free to ask as many questions as you like here in this thread to help you identify what your mistakes were. If you identify those mistakes, then you can change how you use Upwork and never make those same mistakes again in the future.
