Hats can be one of the more intimidating items to make in Studio. It can be hard to twist the default templates into the shape that you want. But we can “cheat” a bit by using shapes rather than the default templates.
First choose the most simple hat template and turn the Fabric color, Fabric texture, and Outlines down to zero.
You can click “OK” for this warning as we are going to cover the head with shapes.
Next go to the Tee shirt icon in the upper left, click “Details,” and select the circle in the top left.
Stretch the circle into an oval and angle it over the face as you would like the brim of the hat.
Click the circle detail again, and choose “Add new detail.” This will add another circle that we can use for the crown of the hat. Angle this circle above the oval, where the crown of the hat should be. You can make the circles slightly transparent to see where the hair lines up under the hat and make sure you have it set up on the right part of the head.
Finally choose a color and set the color back to 100%. The default shadows don’t really work with this hat, so I recommend erasing the shadows by going to Shadow > Brush > Eraser:
Then painting on shadows on the edges, especially the parts that would be blocked from the light, and around the base of the crown.
This gives us a basic hat shape that we can decorate!
