I was in London last week and I saw a lot of Thomas Lawrence's paintings in the National Portrait gallery. Another painting of Maria Gibson (http://fuchsiag.deviantart.com/). I don't think she uses to do this kind of thing ... :p
Bambi is a character I created for 2DArtist magazine. I will do four pin up tutorials with her. Here's the first one ... You will soon be able to see all the steps, in the next issue of the magazine Done with Photoshop.