Yeah. Pretty much any writer, painter, musician, or performer, will gladly tell you that, when they started, they were really doing something in the style of X

Yeah. Pretty much any writer, painter, musician, or performer, will gladly tell you that, when they started, they were really doing something in the style of X as best as they could. In some cases we even have proof (youthful manuscripts, recorded schoolplays, early works). That's effectively fanwork. It takes time to modulate one's original contributions to any art.