Hey. I must say I'm no way related to the person who created this deviant gallery, but I guess there's both right and wrong in Mirandadis and Dark-spider actions. I don't think making a gallery in the one and only aim to say someone copied other artists is good, though neither do I think that using references and pieces of others' works is great.
Before you get angry with me, please let me a chance to explain myself, ok? First, for me, if the only aim of Mirandadis's deviantart is to tell the world one artist "stole", (as I guess that's what he/she meant, and as long as I won't know for sure what really happened, I won't judge), some pieces of art, that's stupid.
Deviantart is certainly not Facebook, and I hate to see anyone that would take it as such. We're not on fucking twitter, or blogs so if you don't plan to send your own stuffs, get away from here. This place is dedicated to arts in each and every way, not to advertising or preventing people.
Second, if dark-spider used references to help herself to draw and didn't mention it, I find it stupid too. Let's see, who never used any reference? Who never used someone's else art to help himself? I don't know a single person who didn't. As long as you say what helped you, that's no stealing.
For me, with the little I 'know', what I find wrong in Cris Ortega's doing is that she doesn't mention anyone else's art as a reference and claimed it as her own. Of course, that's if everything is true. But you have to admit, that's quite puzzling, don't you think, TravisLove?
By the way, one last thing I wanted to tell is that I don't deny that Ortega paints well. If you think so, you did get me wrong. She is skilled, but maybe she should re-think her way to work and mention the art she uses, if everything ends up to be true.