i am half asleep

Stickers / Drawings

2012-01-15T17:28:00.001-08:00

San Diego City Beat! / November 30, 2011

2011-11-30T02:22:00.001-08:00

I was just featured in this weeks San Diego City Beat! Very grateful for their support. Here is the write up they did.

Meet the cover artist

David Peña goes by the artistic alias Half Asleep (halfasleepdesign.com). “Float Cluster,” his drawing of a somewhat shapeless, anthropomorphic creature on the front page of this week’s CityBeat, is indicative of most of the work he does. Pena lets his stream of consciousness take over and tries to give form to the meanderings of his mind.

“It’s more about color, geometric shapes and being conscious and aware,” he says. “That’s the vibe I try to reflect in my artwork…. For me, it’s like this dream state. I like the idea of portraying this feeling of floating or being half awake and half asleep.”

Peña’s process starts with a drawing. He then scans the sketch and colors and manipulates the image in Photoshop and Illustrator. The art student is also in an electronic-music trio called Illuminauts and says his approach to making music is similar to the way he makes art.

“Music is such a big part of my life and my creative process,” he says. “It’s another way of expressing myself with these psychedelic sounds. I feel like our music is on a similar wavelength with my artwork…. It’s this stream of consciousness that I’m trying to project through music and by putting it down visually.”

—Kinsee Morlan

Printmaking

2011-11-20T16:45:00.001-08:00

Dam-Funk at The Casbah San Diego

2011-10-30T13:24:00.000-07:00

Excited to be on the same stage as Dam-Funk! Santino Romeri of Kill Quanti and I worked together on the design. I though I would share it. - HA!

Don't Trip

2011-10-27T23:54:00.000-07:00

Future Sounds of San Diego

2011-10-22T23:54:00.000-07:00

Big Up Magazine just posted a preview to Future Sounds of San Diego! The compilation will be available for free download the first week of November. A lot of work and love has been put into this project by many San Diego artists. I'm very excited to have been apart of designing the artwork for the cover. I want to give a BIG UP to Miguel Vega at Accent Creative for organizing and having a vision for this project. - HA!

Where I'm at

2011-10-20T15:03:00.000-07:00

1. No Age - Keechie

2. Burial - Shell of Light (Shlohmo Remix)

3. Tycho - Hours

4. The Album Leaf - D Day (Sister Crayon Remix)

5. James Blake - Tell Her Safe

6. Tokimonsta - Bright Shadows

7. Asura - He Sees Through Her (Mystery Cave Remix)

8. MatthewDavid - All You'll Never Know

9. Araabmuzik - Streets Tonight

10. Balam Acab - Now Time

11. Jeremiah Jae - $easons

12. RUN DMT - Club Scout

13. S.Maharba Feat. Je and Lucia - So Much Skin

14. Knxwledge - Beech

15. Javelin - Susie Cues

16. Evenings - Babe

17. Phen Swan - Super Cell

Where I'm at by Halfasleep on Mixcloud

This is where I'm at. A fall mix for life transitions.
I hope you enjoy it.

DOWNLOAD IT HERE

One Night Only Art Show - August 28th 2011

2011-09-01T10:05:00.000-07:00

Future Sounds of San Diego

2011-08-25T14:28:00.000-07:00

I have been collaborating with Miguel Vega of Accent Creative / Dataset, to build a miniature cityscape for the cover art of an upcoming compilation called Future Sounds of San Diego. It will feature local electronic producers with a wide range of sound exploration from various genres. Here are a few pictures showing the process of arranging the miniature city to film and photograph. I will post the finished artwork and video once the compilation is completed.
- HA!

HA! Limited Run of Buttons

2011-08-11T02:24:00.001-07:00

I made a limited run of buttons a few months ago. Contact me if you would like one or a few! After these are gone I'm going to make a new series that I'm going to sell as a set.

These got a little rusty because they were in storage for a while, but all the graphics are fine. If your interested, I can mail you the 3 buttons plus a few more for the price of postage. You can email me at hello@halfasleepdesign.com and we can go from there.

HA!

Something to Draw Too

2011-07-27T17:04:00.000-07:00

1. Yuk - Iris Dahlia

2. Clams Casino - I'm Official [Squadda B]

3. Bre'r - Birf Crawl

4. MatthewDavid - International (Feat. Dogbite)

5. Teengirl Fantasy - Portofino

6. Daedelus - El Subidon

7. James Drake - Wilhelm's Fucking Best

8. Illuminauts - Shiny Green Bugs

9. Teebs - My Whole Life

10. Four Tet - My Angel Rocks Back and Forth

11. Shlohmo - Places

12. Groundislava - Creeper Shit

13. Inkjet - Broken Beat

14. Araabmuzik - Electronic Dream

15. FloatUpStream - Vital Levitate

16. D33J - Drowning Pools

Something to Draw Too by Halfasleep on Mixcloud

I put together a mix to listen to while drawing, or whatever other creative activities you participate in this summer. I hope you enjoy it. - HA!

Download the Mix Here

Unused Type / A B C Download

2011-04-20T00:42:00.000-07:00

Here are a few unused type faces I made recently for a contest. Letters ABC in a variety of styles. I bundled them for free download as high resolution tiff's. If you use them send an email, comment my way! It would be cool to see them put to use. - HA!

DOWNLOAD

paparazzzzzzi

2011-01-17T19:41:00.000-08:00

Flying Lotus T-Shirt Design Idea

2011-01-10T02:00:00.000-08:00

^ float up ^

2010-11-01T23:13:00.000-07:00

beatmix

2010-08-25T00:50:00.000-07:00

After returning home from an inspiring trip to Thailand I was challenged to put together a beat mix in the matter of a week and a few days. I gathered a few samples I had including field recordings out of country, old records and whatever else I could find. This mix is the product of piecing simple ideas together. I hope you enjoy it, more to come. HA!

DOWNLOAD IT HERE

Digital Artist Magazine Article

2010-08-15T22:18:00.000-07:00

I was recently asked to share some thoughts in Digital Artist Magazine on self promotion and portfolio presentation. Pretty cool to be in there with Kristina Collantes, much respect for her art. Pick up a copy here!

Promote promote

2010-06-13T00:31:00.000-07:00

Illuminauts - Acid Hands 7 inch (Glow in the Dark Vinyl)

2010-06-10T20:06:00.001-07:00

Finally here!

Get it while they last here: http://www.accesshiphop.com/store/?itemid=19489

Run of 300. Don't sleep!

Float Cluster Series

2010-06-06T15:50:00.001-07:00

Kill Quanti / Half Asleep Collab

2010-06-01T01:19:00.000-07:00

concept artwork...

The end result...

My good friend Santino of KILL QUANTI and I put our creative energy together to promote and support the growing beat scene that is becoming widespread around the world. This poster was made for an upcoming show in San Diego.

Mixcloud T-shirt Design

2010-05-09T16:24:00.000-07:00

Illuminauts limited run of 50 Micro-Mix Artwork

2010-04-11T23:28:00.000-07:00

http://www.mixcloud.com/killquanti/illuminauts-micro-mix/

floatup mix 1

2010-03-24T18:52:00.000-07:00

http://www.mixcloud.com/halfasleep/floatupmix1/

Playlist:

1. Odd Nosdam - The Kill Tune Two

2. Sun Ra - The All Of Everything

3. Atlas Sound - Walkabout (Feat. Noah Lennox)

4. Flying Lotus - Auntie's Lock/Infinitum (Feat. Laura Darlington)

5. Black Mamba - The Autumn People

6. The Album Leaf - Micro Melodies

7. The Books - All Our Base Are Belong To Them

8. Broken Social Scene - Feel Good Lost

9. Tortoise - Blue Station

10. Grouper - Heavy Water/I'D Rather Be Sleeping

11. Ras G - Desert Fairy

12. Prefuse 73 - Fingertip Trajectories

13. Tristeza - Enchanter

14. Illuminauts - Williewilliamz

15. Dosh - Food Cycles

DOWNLOAD HERE

float cluster t-shirt

2010-03-07T17:09:00.000-08:00

Debris

2010-02-26T21:17:00.000-08:00

speak 2 me

2010-02-26T20:57:00.000-08:00

heavy heavy heavy

2010-02-26T20:50:00.001-08:00

COMPUTER ARTS EXPOSURE / HALF ASLEEP

2010-02-22T03:06:00.001-08:00

I'm featured in the March 172 issue of Computer Arts! I have been following this magazine since I first stumbled upon it in high school. It's a surreal / humbling experience to be in it.

sleep patterns

2010-02-14T17:03:00.001-08:00

wassste

2010-02-05T02:15:00.000-08:00

Don't Deal With Folly

2010-01-24T00:48:00.000-08:00

house is on fire

2010-01-19T00:17:00.001-08:00

recent sketches

2010-01-19T00:06:00.000-08:00

ill logo brainstorm

2010-01-18T23:44:00.000-08:00

illuminauts logo

2010-01-18T05:08:00.001-08:00

San Diego Latino Film Festival Submission

2010-01-02T07:17:00.000-08:00

Purchase my Prints at Society6!

2009-12-03T01:10:00.000-08:00

Just click the image to go to view store

float cluster

2009-11-10T21:41:00.000-08:00

illustration mundo

2009-11-01T13:05:00.000-08:00

I'm currently editor's choice on illustrationmundo.com! Check it out while it's up. Ton's of really amazing illustrator's on the site to saturate your eyes.

brain escape

2009-10-31T10:23:00.001-07:00

float up

2009-10-30T23:21:00.000-07:00

Black Summer Studio Review

2009-08-18T03:46:00.000-07:00

click on image to read the review

bisney

2009-08-18T02:52:00.000-07:00

some grimy sounds for your ears

DOWNLOAD HERE

Long Live Logos - Let's Take a Walk / Album Artwork

2009-08-11T02:39:00.000-07:00

mash and sleep

2009-05-07T02:27:00.002-07:00

Art Show December 30th at the Beauty Bar

2008-12-28T21:07:00.001-08:00

first post - a few updates

2008-12-07T18:54:00.000-08:00

I'll be using this blog to keep you posted with new art, sketches, mix tapes, projects and much more.

A few projects going on at the moment:

illuminauts

half asleep

Also

illuminauts will be performing at the Che Cafe (San Diego)

December 13th

Skrapez

Inspired Flight

Combat! (Los Angeles)

Check out this guy being called out at the last show we played with Subtle, Zach Hill and Bill Wesley. Craziness

- HA!