Copy your heroes until you can see where they’d go wrong. That’s the moment your own style starts.

Imitation is the standard route into any craft, and originality is what is left over once you have absorbed enough to disagree. Copying closely teaches you the reasoning underneath the choices, and the moment you can predict where your influences would misjudge something, you have your own judgement to work from.

Study one person’s work closely enough to reproduce it. Then look for the place where their approach would not suit what you are trying to say. That disagreement is the beginning of your own version.