Recommend me good Cycles rendering/shaders/lighting tutorials

[Girm Ork]

There are plenty of Cycles rendering tutorials, but they all about interiors or architecture.
How to render characters in Cycles?
How to build my own shaders for skin and etc.?

I would like to achieve something like this:


Please, don't recommend some general Blender tutorials, I already saw them. Nobody is rendering a donut in Daz Studio, right? So, I need something similar to Daz iRay tutorials, but about Cycles.

 

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[mrkhing]

If you just want to create a stylized skin material similar to the example you provided it's pretty simple, just add a principled BSDF with some subsurface scattering and then maybe use some layers with texture painting to add more color, blushing, etc.

Subsurface scattering tutorial:


Here's a tutorial on how to add texture layers in blender:


Lighting course by Blender Guru:

 

[rainbowpunfz]

I don't know how deep you want to dive into things, but here is some procedural stuff you can do with cycles:

some basics:

procedural eyes:

procedural hair (skip to 11 minutes or so):

 

[Girm Ork]

Thank you all for those awesome tutorials.
If you know more decent tutorials, post them here. Paid tutorials are fine too.

I don't know how deep you want to dive into things, but here is some procedural stuff you can do with cycles:

It is too deep for me, but someone else could find it useful.
Actually, I am using Cycles with 3Ds Max, lol. I probably can't make this procedural stuff.