about the artist

Hi!! I'm Comet, aka foglag_! (I also sometimes go by Tableturf after the game mode in Splatoon 3! It means a lot to me.)

I draw art of things I like and make products of things I want to see. I have been drawing for as long as I can remember and still have drawings from when I was 6!

My main inspirations for my art style are cartoons that I watched when I was younger and 2000s culture. I want to be someone that kid me would find the coolest! I like using bright bold colours and geometric shapes. My favourite shape is the triangle.

Why is my username foglag_? It's based on reclaiming a chronic condition as something that I persevere through as well as an intrinsic part of my identity rather than a thing I suffer from. TLDR, the fog refers to brain fog and the lag refers to computer lag.

I have a condition known as fibromyalgia that causes widespread pain throughout my body, and varies from day to day. Some days I may be virtually indistinguishable from a healthy person, other days I may need to use a cane to walk or may even be in so much pain I cannot get out of bed. The condition also causes chronic fatigue and what is known as brain fog - difficulties in thinking clearly, memory, and processing information.

Since I was young I always had an affinity for technology and robots. In school I created an alter ego who was a robot. I suppose I didn't feel fully connected to humanity in some sense, but I also admire the human spirit. It's hard to explain. Anyways. One day I realised that my experience of brain fog reminded me of how my computer would sometimes lag on tasks that it had successfully performed in the past, sometimes completely unpredictably. I liked this comparison and felt defining my condition my own way made me feel more autonomy.

My previous username online was twilightcomet, but I was getting disillusioned with that as I mentally associated it with my past self that I have grown beyond, and that it was very long to type. Foglag is a shorter and snappier username with more personal meaning. I added an underscore on websites where the handle was taken, but then I realised I liked it more with the underscore because the extending line can represent how I continue on despite everything :)

I have some more personal info on my strawpage: foglag.straw.page

You can follow me here:

Instagram: @foglag_

Bluesky: @tableturf.bsky.social and @erraticroom.net