Eric Joyner only paints things he likes. For the past thirteen years, that’s meant robots and donuts. His iconic depictions of the vintage toys and glazed pastries are instantly recognizable and impossible to resist.

Joyner lives and works in San Francisco in an old naval shipyard. The artistic enclave there is about 200 strong, and the community occasionally hosts open studios. The typical reaction when admirers see Joyner’s work? “They look at me and think, ‘Whoa, you must be really hungry if you’re painting donuts.’”

For the past decade, Joyner, a commercial illustrator-turned-fine artist, has placed vintage looking robots amidst cherry blossoms and in police line-ups. One even popped up in a garden filled with Sanrio characters for the company’s 50th anniversary show. He earned a lot of press in recent years for pairing the robots with donuts in his paintings, as featured in the Dark Horse book, Robots and Donuts: The Art of Eric Joyner.