My first sculpture ever, done in Blender 2.63 in about 3 hours of work so far. There's no specific reason for choosing this motive other than it being very good for gradually adding detail from a basic shape.
I've always had some issues with Blender in the past, mainly the controls being what a layman would describe as "AAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHH" but they've made a LOT of progress since then. Most of the time on this was spent for researching the shape, not the tools, which are very easy to pick up and put to use.