Greetings,
I'll keep it a bit shorter this week as I'm a bit under the weather. I started writing out the first scenes and even started rendering the images. Octane, the render tool I use recently had quite a few updates and bug-fixes and I had a look at it and enhanced my skin shader a bit. I haven't updated the 'old' characters to this shader yet, but I'll have a look at it any time soon to see if they work with them as well. I attached 2 quick renders with a random character.
Current status
~ 40 rendered and edited images
~ 10% of the writing is done