This is a mug I made in Maya. Now before this I had no experience in Maya so this is as good as it is going to get.
To get the shape of the mug I got a cylinder and removed the top flat face of the mug to get a cup shape. I then subdivided the mug and extruded different levels of the shape to get more of a rounded shape on the sides to make it look more mug shaped
After this I added more touches on it to make it have more depth and a bit of thickness to the shape. I played around with the settings on the right side of the screen to get the right thickness for my object.
to add the handle to the mug I used a torus shape and removed half of the shape to be left with half the shape. i then rotated the shape and moved it inline with the mug so that it looked like it was connected to the mug. I then changed around with the transform tool to make it look like what it does now.
