Comments on: A Sad Story- MUST READ

By: oscar mitchell

oscar mitchell — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:49:26 +0000

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By: Dindie

Dindie — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:30:57 +0000

I think this incident gave me a little creep as I would display my works on blog or making myself an online portfolio. As a beginner, whose works still not so well-known (or probably unknown), people with bad intention could easily claimed ours as theirs and it’s so damn easy. Probably would be a different stories if the one they stole is from a famous artist, they could easily track it.

I’m a self-taught artist and it got my concern if someone with art-degree would do something nasty like this. Why would they bother study art in college for yearas, if in the end the best they could do is stealing?

By: hannah curtis

hannah curtis — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:36:30 +0000

crikey she copied everything. i cant believe she had the guts to do this. In University we were told to research other artists and put them in our sketchbooks to reference them but this girl obviously used everything and made fine art prints etc.

i have been reading into this topic this last week and its interesting.

By: Stitcher

Stitcher — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:02:51 +0000

People such as Samantha Beeston are the reason why some creative people find it difficult to showcase their original work for fear of it being ripped off. There are plenty more Beestons who have and will continue to get away with plagiarism. Maybe not as obious as this case. This was blatant theft.

By: John Instruct

John Instruct — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:15:02 +0000

Just been shown this article and nothing ever shocks me when it comes to plagiarism but this is something else.

One thing I will say, why hasn’t her tutor picked up on this? she was s student and all of a sudden she could sketch and come up with amazing work, with no back up and no work in progress?? her tutor should of spotted her work and pulled her up earlier before this all erupted.

By: ian shimkoviak

ian shimkoviak — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:09:39 +0000

take the whole “Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal” statement to a very unfortunate and literal level. Ouch. I feel for Lauren, but I also pity the criminal. what a sad sad person… on many levels.

By: lyndsay

lyndsay — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:08:07 +0000

this makes me feel so sad and so ill in my stomach. a really delusional and desperate act by the “artist” samantha.

this happens in the cake world often too… cake designs being copied, or cake designer’s photos being passed off as other people’s on their own cake business sites. again, just as there is in the illustrator’s community, there are very vigilant cupcake/cake artist watchdogs out there that call out the photo stealers!

also, lauren’s artwork is so lovely… ! and the “tracing work” and coloring samantha did to it made it much more garish and less subtle.

thank you for posting.