Hi dear! To be honest I’m completely new to these, all I’ve been doing so far was experimenting and hoping for the best. However, I’m planning on making way more of those, so maybe in the future I’ll be able to provide more useful tips.

Meanwhile I can only tell you how my painting process looked like on that Farris card. 

First of all you need to decide on the aspect of your character you’d like to show. In my case, I wanted to show how easily Farris could be swayed if presented with oportunity to get what she wants. And what Farris wants is to resurrect her little sister, whose soul’s been lost to the Fade. So, to get that shite out I’ve decided on adding Fen’Harel so symbolize the Fade, Farris is letting go of her staff and holding an end of a scarf (my thought behind it was the thingy in DA2 that your romanced companion would wear). For the colors I went with red, green, and blue, though all very faint, to respectively hint at love/deeply rooted want, greed, and sadness. 

Dragon Age cards can be hella shapey, or hella painted.I’ve found THIS on the subject. This person neatly narrows down the general ideas behind the shapey design. If you go with the more painted figure, keep in mind to add some shapes or patterns in the background to keep in touch with the style. I went for something in between, I think. Or at least that’s how it turned out.

Now, the pose. Deep in my heart I want to believe that once you get a hang of the pose, you are set. It might be my sentiment for any doodle I’ve ever drawn speaking, but, again, I kinda made them work so far. It takes twisting and turning and putting them all over your card, but it helps to figure out the card as a whole. If you feel like a certain pose doesn’t fit your ideas in any way, draw another one. Experimenting is going to take you far.

Farris card was greatly inspired by the ones painted by TheMinttu. HERE is the process of their Solas tarot card. I gave their way a try, only adding some textures on top in overlay.

And HERE are all of the DA tarot cards for the reference and inspiration.

That said, thank you for asking and I hope it helps someone at least a bit :)