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I think its wonderful that you want to learn. Thats the first step to learning. One way we learn is from imitation. No one expects a learner to be able to do what professionals do. What's important is one knows how to learn. That requires directed attention to what is being learned.

Usually this means picking some aspect about the art piece and reverse engineering it in a manner of speaking. None of this talks about how it's done, just consider it a overview of what's being done.

Oh and if you reference someone else's work, where your drawing is near exact, credit them. I've do master landscape painting studies where the goal is to reproduce the work almost exactly. But when I do it I follow the same procedure as if it was my own work.

I’m intrigued, what sort of piece was it and how much do you think it replicated the original? Obviously it’s very respectful you’ve acknowledged the circumstances but I’d be interested to know in the art space what is “too close”

It was a pixel art piece of the Tower of Tartarus from Persona 3. As the tower has a very unique shape and style, I looked up multiple references and stuck with 4 of them, but the final piece looked very, very close to one specific reference, more than I realised before this happened.

Glad to see this post from you. I see you as someone with a strong moral fibre, so I believe this is just an honest mistake. But in the future it would be a good idea to provide the reference to the original art. You've already got a fantastic art style, and I look forward to seeing more of it 💚