Page 4. I wanted to make my depiction of the comic personal, because Crosby wrote the song very openly, so here I recreate a fundamental atmosphere of my college: giant charcoal drawings and endless nights working. While working on art is not always a beautiful process, there is a real beauty to putting your soul into an artwork and capturing the intangible.
The pentagram has a lot of meaning, but it is discussed extensively and specifically as an important symbol for Sir Gawain in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (a famous piece of King Arthur myth). The poem talks about the pentangle (another name for a pentagram) that adorns Sir Gawain's red shield, so I incorporated it by having Guinevere paint the symbol onto the knight's shield (I also added the eye of a peacock feather to the bottom of the shield to connect the story elements more).
While many of the marks are meant to look like charcoal (especially in the top right panel), all of it is ink, just rubbed out. I'm not exactly sure what she is suppose to be drawing, because I left it ambiguous so the hidden pentagram wouldn't stand out too much (the bottom left finished drawing has it pretty clear, while the upper right drawing in progress has her finishing the shape).
As a nice coincidence, converse sneakers utilize a pentagram as their logo, and artists often wear them because they are very cheap (and art school is very expensive). The bottom panel's odd shape and space creates a sense of entering a dream state, but I wouldn't take this to mean the rest of the comic is a dream. Instead I understand the unusual mood of the song to embody an etheral state that I want to be reflected throughout the entire comic, not just what comes after this sequence.