TY t_3!

I would turn the bump down a bit. Otherwise it is not bad at all

Thanks for the words of encouragement!
Agreed on bump, I was trying to push the edge there to see differences and forgot to move it back down.

I have a pretty lousy video card with only 190 cuda cores. But I'm hopeful to get a new card soon, so I splurged on Octane.
Here's my first render, where I spent most of my time trying to get a nice skin texture with SSS.

Test1c.jpg

Stopped after 20 minutes of render time... if my math is ...