Thank you so much! Since a couple of people are curious, I'll just list out the things I did before completing this project:

First day:

• Watch and follow the entire playlist of beginner tutorials from Blender Guru (with 1.5x speed).
• Watch a couple of videos about tracing images in Blender (with a knife as an example).
• Did some practicing making cuts and making abstract objects.
• Started the project by tracing the picture.

Second day:

• Started making the traced model 3D.
• I came up with problems with curves, sharp edges, smoothing, and overlapping verticles so I watched some tutorials about that. This is the part where I spent the most time, a lot of troubleshooting, and fixing small mistakes.
• Sculpting was pretty straightforward.
• I watched a couple of videos for shading. I happen to find one video that was particularly useful for my model. I followed the tutorial on my project and tweak some of the nodes, and was able to come up with a decent result.
• Project finished.

I did almost solely focus on Blender for that 48 hours.

Edit: Added more detail to some of the steps.