Hero- Much Ado About Nothing Interpretation

These designs were for the character Hero, in my Much Ado About Nothing Interpretation. I started by looking into her characterisation as innocent, young, vulnerable. I wasn't very inspired by this and my designs were limited. I decided to look back into the play, to the act where Hero is humiliated by Claudio (owing to Don John's lies) and fakes her death and goes into hiding until her innocence is proven. I looked into imagery of widows, death and grief. I wanted to portray Hero as mourning the loss of Claudio and her 'life'. I used netting over the illustration to give the idea that Hero is literally consumed by her grief. I used black lace and velvet to give the impression of mourning and depict Hero as a 'widow'.