Maggie Bignell

narration scrapped sketches. 

I hate straight lines.

(Apologies for scanning the monsters so terribly.) Sketchbook / Maggie

57 | 100 After being rejected from the Women’s Army Corps for being too tall (girl, I getchu), this woman ended up in the Secret Intelligence division where she was asked to solve the problem of too many underwater explosives being set off by curious sharks. She concocted various recipes to add to the water and repel sharks, and her creation is still in use today. It was her first foray into cooking—though you probably know her better for the cookbook she later published entitled Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her name was Julia Child. #100daysofbadassery #the100dayproject

61 | 100 Tu YouYou (屠呦呦) is a chemist who discovered artemisinin, which is used to treat malaria and has saved millions of lives. In 2015, she became the first Chinese Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, and the first Chinese woman to receive a Nobel prize. #100daysofbadassery #the100dayproject

My sanity project of late—my forever-favorite scene, when Harry first experiences Diagon Alley. ✨

48 | 100 One of my favorite spots in the world is Shakespeare and Company, a little English bookstore in Paris that is filled to the brim with books in every nook and cranny, with cozy spots to curl up and a piano upstairs. Well, apparently, this isn’t the first Shakespeare and Company of Paris, but the second—the first was started by Sylvia Beach in 1919, publishing the likes of Ezra Pound, Hemingway, and James Joyce (who used it as his office!). It closed during the German occupation of France in 1941. #100daysofbadassery #the100dayproject

Rita Moreno, 44 | 100 Rita Moreno—most well-known as Anita in West Side Story—is one of twelve people—and the only Latina (Puerto Rican!)—to ever receive an Emmy, an Oscar, a Tony, *and* a Grammy. She is also one of 22 to have achieved the “Triple Crown of Acting”—specifically receiving individual competitive Academy, Emmy, and Tony awards for acting—and one of only two people to get *both*. 💃🏽 #100daysofbadassery #the100dayproject

Surprise-Sunday-off doodles 🌿

38 | 100 The Unsinkable Molly Brown became famous when she helped people off the Titanic and convinced her lifeboat to turn around and search for survivors. She used her Titanic-surviving fame to support the rights of workers and women, children's education, and the commemoration of those who had died on the ship. (And she was actually named Maggie, but that had less of a ring to it for the musical that made her story famous. 😓) #the100dayproject #100daysofbadassery

35 | 100 A London actress became the first H&M model to wear a hijab in late 2015. Mariah Idrissi is the self-described "face of modest fashion". #100daysofbadassery #the100dayproject

34 | 100 Katherine Johnson is a space scientist (!) who joined NASA (then NACA) as a mathematician in 1953. Her initial job, in her words, was in a group of "computers who wore skirts." A time of need temporarily transferred Johnson to an all-male flight research team. She wowed the team with her analytical geometry skills, and ended up remaining when her colleagues were transferred back. As an aerospace technologist / space scientist, she calculated trajectories, such as the one for Alan Shepard, the first American in space, and that of the 1969 Apollo flight to the moon, and noted launch windows and alternate fail safe navigational routes for many other missions (like getting to Mars). #100daysofbadassery #the100dayproject

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13 | 100 Maya Angelou, the phenomenal poet, author, and civil rights activist that penned seven autobiographies, three books of essays, many books of poetry, as well as plays, television, and movies, was also—fun fact—the first black female conductor on San Francisco’s cable cars at age 16. #100daysofbadassery #the100dayproject

10 | 100 Woooo playing with a mix of flat + textureness. Thoughts? Jane Goodall is the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, best known for her 56-year (!!) (and counting) study on chimpanzee interactions in Tanzania. She is also a UN Messenger of Peace, actively advocating for animal rights at every opportunity. She also, fun fact, voiced herself in an episode of the Wild Thornberrys. #100daysofbadassery #the100dayproject