Follow-up from "Is my art too similar to Hollow knight?" post I made yesterday

Yesterday I made a post asking if my art was too similar to Hollow Knight. I was working at enviromental sprites (bushes, grass, leaves) but not having any success in making my own sprites, I had tried imitating very closely ones from Hollow Knight.
I didnt understand at the time that such action is basically stealing work.
I got a lot of comments telling me I was stealing artwork and being a thief, a scammer, etc
I immediatly panicked and removed the post.

First of all I would like to apologize
Hollow knight is, in my opinion, one of the greatest games ever released, and an immense masterpiece of art. (apologies for my bad english)
I do not intend, in any way, to steal work from it. If anything, my intention is to take inspiration, like most people always do, they tend to "copy" parts of other successful projects. Coding often is, copying other's people code and readapting it to your needs, and being primarly a developer I approached art with the same thinking.

But I can see how its a very different enviroment; I decided to scrap everything I had achieved so far, and redraw the sprites on my own, without calcing/copying siluettes/shapes or anything similar to that.
Thanks for the feedback, at least I solved this problem early as I had just started making these assets!