Looking good Robyn, I won't make any comments on artistic merit, my first one is an almost naked Vickie after all. :p

I have been letting my first one go in bits and pieces (I love being able to stop and resume rendering as needed)  to see how long it takes for the grainy shadows to clear up at my usual final render dimensions that I haul off for post work.

28 hours in, still got some grainyness and red 'speckling' in the darkest parts of the shadows, though most of it has smoothed out, about 500 samples/pixel.  I am just guessing here, but at the rate it is clearing up, I would think I would need about twice that many for a final render.  Maybe I needs a better puter...  Yes.  Yes I think I do