Some Blender/sculptie video tutorials
The blender trail … « machinimatrix
The Blender Underground also has some good basic "how to use Blender" videos, but the later ones get into stuff that you don't need to know to make sculpties.
Blender Underground Video Tutorials
As far as Blender being "hard", I think once you find out where to find the preferences you go "ah ha" and start adapting to the ui. But in the end 3D modeling is a hard thing to learn no matter what program you use.
I don't know about anyone else... but the first time I opened Photoshop (back in the Photoshop 3 days) I thought I'd never understand it and all I managed to do is make a few colored squares, or draw a squiggly line on a photo. But I learned.
Oh speaking of BAD ui's ... back then I had a Photoshop plug-in called Kai's Power tools the worst UI ever invented.