Beginner

Chris has put out quite a few tutorials that are easy to follow.  

This is a tutorial from 2.7, but the ideas should work with shaders in 2.9.  Very nice style

 Inspiration

Beginner

Intermediate

 Time lapse where he is able to build the droid from a blueprint image.  He textures the droid also. 

Inspiration

ArtStation - Ansel Hsiao This guy is an excellent modeler.  His Spaceships are movie quality.

Get the models

Sketchfab

TurboSquid

Blendswap

cgtrader (has the best, most detailed models.)

Inspiration

This is one of the best Star wars shorts I've seen in terms of quality.  His laser blasts are excellent, (Has a better glow and blast object than the below videos) and the shows what the Unreal Quixel Mega scans can do.  He could've used Iclone7 to make his character, but used a Human Generator which ;also makes shape keys for facial poses. Just fantastic.