From animations to sculptures, Alex Lujan’s Bandito character comically portrays “the man of the house”Multidisciplinary artist Alex Lujan was in his home studio when he began drawing on a Post-It note. At the time, he was thinking about how much he missed his father. He drew a man with a thick mustache, wearing long, pointy crocodile boots, holding a beer in one hand and a stirring paddle in the other.
Some of the memories Lujan shared with his mother were watching country-music videos all day on CMT and her filming him singing and performing. He incorporates those moments into his work, too, by making animated country-music videos featuring Bandito that he primarily shares on Instagram. The songs in the music videos, such as “Chappy” and “X-Bar,” are original tracks he wrote and recorded with Dallas producer Dustin Cavazos.