Hi! I am a freelance illustrator from Czech Republic, currently living in Prague.
I started doing freelance illustration in 2018 and my main focus are sci-fi and fantasy illustrations for board games, RPG books and trading card games. But I will illustrate anything that fits my style and favorite themes 🙂 See below for full refrence.
And in case you were wondering what a heck is wrong with my name… My real name is actually Jiří Kůs. Better, huh? 😀 That is why I started to use more english-friendly “Yiri Kus” 🙂
Board games
Board games where I worked as an illustrator. You can see the illustrations in projects section.
- Lost Ruins of Arnak: Missing Expedition (2023)
- Starship Captains (2022)
- Lost Ruins if Arnak: Expedition Leaders (2021)
- Lost Ruins of Arnak (2020)
- Sanctum (2019)
awards:
- Lost Ruins of Arnak won in 2020 Dice Tower award for Best Artwork
Video Games
I worked on Eternal Card Game, you can see the illustrations here.
I also did concept art and promo art for few unpublished indie games.
Books
I worked as an illustrator on several books, mainly for czech RPG “Draci Hlidka”, but unfortunately most of them are still unpublished. See the artworks here.
- Kosti, pasti, slepice – Jeffery Russell, czech edition of “Dungeoneers”, 2024 (cover illustration)
- Herní kompendium – krypty a jeskyně, book of RPG quests, 2023 (inside illustrations)
- Hrdinové Domoviny: Dáma z Agor-Nhat , 2022(cover illustration)
- Dračí Hlídka – Kniha monster, 2021 (cover illustrations + several inside)
- Podzimní Bouře – Petr Kříž, 2021 (inside illustrations)
Other Projects
Other projects like posters, calendars, mascots.
- Dragon Calendar 2019-2023
- Dragons 2024
- Dragons 2023
- Dragons 2022
- Dragons 2021
- Dragons 2020
- Dragons 2019
- Posters for “Nanoday” 2016-2022, e.g. Plakát pro Nanoden Ústí nad Labem 2022
- Logo “Czech is Nano”
Pricing
I price every project individually based on my hourly rate ($22 per hour). An illustration can take anything from 10 – 40 hours depending on the complexity of the subject, number of characters, design requirements, reworks, etc..
For this reason, first thing I do when somebody wants to hire me as an illustrator is to give a price estimate and then we can either agree on fixed price per illustration or hourly rate.
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