In my experience you'll want to start with the sculpting mode. The vertex twiddling can come later. Rough "tutorial" for anyone interested: 1) start blender 2)

In my experience you'll want to start with the sculpting mode. The vertex twiddling can come later. Rough "tutorial" for anyone interested: 1) start blender 2) switch to sculpt mode from the dropdown in the top left, by default it's set to "object mode" 3) Open the "remesh" dropdown in the top right and click "Remesh" in the panel that shows. 4) mess around with the brushes along the left side. Click and drag to use the brush. Click and drag middle mouse button to rotate around the sculpt. Scroll to zoom. Shift and drag middle mouse button to "offset" your view. 5) notice your sculpt starts getting kind of glitchy or low resolution, Go back to step 3 and repeat. You can lower the "voxel size" to increase sculpt resolution. I feel like blender isn't especially hard to use these days, it just does a lot of things and has a lot of buttons which makes it hard for beginners. Ignore all the buttons you're not using and it's a lot more doable.