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I would suggest starting out with Raylib if you want to stick with high level languages; there are many language bindings for raylib so you can start out making graphics without needing C. It doesn't make much sense to try and learn low level graphics programming when you haven't even learned low level normal programming. It's true that OpenGL is the friendliest graphics API, but it will still assume good knowledge of C or C++ in all its documentation and 99% of the tutorials you'll find out there.
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OpenTK
The Open Toolkit library is a fast, low-level C# wrapper for OpenGL, OpenAL & OpenCL. It also includes windowing, mouse, keyboard and joystick input and a robust and fast math library, giving you everything you need to write your own renderer or game engine. OpenTK can be used standalone or inside a GUI on Windows, Linux, Mac.
You can also use C# to learn OpenGL. Just check OpenTK for this.
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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LWJGL
LWJGL is a Java library that enables cross-platform access to popular native APIs useful in the development of graphics (OpenGL, Vulkan, bgfx), audio (OpenAL, Opus), parallel computing (OpenCL, CUDA) and XR (OpenVR, LibOVR, OpenXR) applications.
For Java use LWJGL - there is even a gitbook 3D Game Development with LWJGL 3
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LearnOpenGL
Code repository of all OpenGL chapters from the book and its accompanying website https://learnopengl.com
You're gonna run into C++ sooner or later (if you're serious about this). Might as well learn it now. It would make following learnopengl.com easier. If you know Java you're probably 90% there. That website doesn't use too many "advanced" features of C++. Maps, arrays, dynamic arrays...
