A few years ago someone posted this on Reddit claiming to have made this character in blender. I thought that was really fucking dumb because it would take less than an hour and it was clearly ai. They argued with me when I said as much, so I did it myself in about 30 minutes to prove a point.
Whatever works for you is good. I did the donut back in the day but I'm a huge autist and didn't absorb a lot of it so I ended up doing a bunch of the tutorials. Ended up going back to the donut because it's a quick one.
When I really started to get into blender I watched blenderguru's chair tutorial. It was an hour or two long but taught me most of the skills I used to make this post, and still use today. (I don't recommend his recent stuff though, he's fully pivoted to ai)