More like a small educational thing rather than a true 'tutorial'. I'll be doing a more step-by-step version in the coming days, but for now, here's some tidbits that will hopefully help someone.
Typos abound, more than likely. Computer's been weird today so I had to use MS Paint for text and can't fix it right now.
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MistingWolf
This is really awesome. I think the cheetah has a very unique metacarpal pad structure. Very nice tutorial; it can be difficult to realize that the shapes change between species!