Illustration on Life is Beautifulhttps://robertluwang.github.io/life/tags/illustration/Recent content in Illustration on Life is BeautifulHugoenWed, 26 Aug 2026 15:22:34 -0400blogging visual designhttps://robertluwang.github.io/life/posts/2026-08-26-blogging-visual-design/Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:22:34 -0400https://robertluwang.github.io/life/posts/2026-08-26-blogging-visual-design/<p>I run a personal static blog built with Hugo, deploying through an automated GitHub Actions pipeline. The text publishing part is frictionless. Writing in Obsidian, pushing to the repository, and triggering the build is a solved problem. The visual part was the annoyance. Every time I needed a header image, I would ask an AI generator, and it always spat out a hyper-polished, mathematically perfect render. It looked like cheap stock photography.</p>