New York artist Eddie Martinez uses bright colours, innovative lines and ad hoc media in his art. His works show his ideals of life with earlier works showing a more realistic approach with subjects of representation; while his later works turn abstraction into an expression of emotions. Under the influences of abstraction, traditional art history and pop art, his works merges techniques of paintings, sketches, abstraction and realism to create a unique representation of art.

The essence of Martinez's creativity is rooted in the play and variation of free-hand drawing. He carries markers and a Moleskine sketchbook so he can record his inspirations whenever they appear. The classic style of Moleskine notebooks is also the favorite of writer Hemingway, as well as painters Van Gogh and Picasso, who use it to capture momentary imaginations. For most artists, drawing on paper is a type of exercise that often becomes a prelude to a work of art. For Martinez, however, sketching is his habit and the main focus of his creativity. He draws not only inside his studio, but also at home and while he travels, where drawing becomes a tool to take notes and write journals. Afterwards, he would takes his sketchbook drawings and put them up on the walls of his studio, transforming a little drawing into a large painting or even pasting directly onto the canvas to imbue the spiritual content and feeling of the sketch onto the larger canvas. The pure thought of painting and instinctive sketching leave his work free of strong social or political criticism.