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An unnecessarily enormous hat tutorial.  Hopefully it contains some useful information or something amusing enough to justify its existence!If you have any difficult viewing the image, please say so. I can make it available as a downloadable thing if necessary. Also, if you happen to spot any typos or unclear wording, please let me know. You can only stare at a thing for so long before your capacity for discernment gets up and leaves the room.I still want to do that face drawing tutorial, but I have to rev myself up for it. Even seemingly simple topics easily turn into unwieldy monstrosities like this. Faces are in a whole separate league of complexity.----------------I'll be posting some previews for the upcoming comic chapter soon. Would you like me to include the possibly spoilery thumbnails?Pages for the chapter will start going up at the end of this month. 

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Evan Clarke

The text is a little tricky to read on mobile. I can get the basic gist, but none of that good lackadaisy banter :(

Tukaro

This is both great and amusing, but it doesn't tell me which hat I should draw when I want the character to tip it and say "m'lady". Also that TF2 Heavy looks so happy with a properly-fitting hat, as gaben intended.

Tracy Butler

It's not especially mobile friendly in its current form. Sorry about that. I'll be making a mobile-specific version soon, though. For now, are you able to zoom in to read text or is it totally beyond hope?

Begaminoid

5.5" screen - perfectly readable. I definitely have a thing for hats. Don't have enough occasions to we're 'em. It's a cruel world.

Matt

Excellent timing for me! I'm in the process of drawing a number of Civil War era soldiers and the hats were giving me all sorts of troubles.

KenFletcher

This is an excellent tutorial for an approach to doing hats. Thank you.

Beck Rachwitz

WHAT. This isn't the hat tutorial I never wanted. This is the hat tutorial I never knew I needed! This is VERY helpful to me! I always always struggled with hats, and so pretty much NONE of my characters have them. What a sad world they must live in, where hats just don't exist? Thank you so much for this unexpected, delightful, and informative little tutorial~! I really feel like it will help me in the future. :>

Laura MacDonald

This might be one of favourite things ever, and I'm not even a draw-er-type-person.

Garrett Simpson

Totally unexpected and also totally helpful! Thank you!

Sprinklehen

Not unnecessarily enormous. Hats are hard and this helps alot.

Henry Pitts

Awesome tutorial. Too bad I can't draw.

Meto

Mordecai looks about ready to die... or kill all witnesses. XD

Meadowhaven

This is so brilliant (and funny). Thank you so much!

KaNier

Waw. Gospel for drawing hats.

daGrimm

The multitudinous minutiae of a millner's manifesto. Much appreciated, m'lady.

Charlotte Grubbs

Oh Jesus, I totally lost it at that derp portrait of Rose. This is an unexpected delight.

Delisle

Hmmm..., Rocky's hat does NOT sound like an innocuous Lancre Lappet-Faced Wowhawk*..., better take cover! (*Terry Pratchett reference for Discworld non-initiates)

Holden

Never totally beyond hope.

Holden

I don’t know when I’ll get over chinny straps

Sue Donem

This is the best, I was struggling with hats just recently! And for like... my whole life, now that I think about it.

Sanne Krueger

That introduction comic is GOLD.

Ragnar Drayke

This is wonderful, and will go down among The Most Useful Things alongside your Construction and Expressions tutorials.

Thren

This is wonderful and useful and just seeing all the different hats you've drawn and some of the tweaks you do with them is super helpful too - thank you!

Craig Hilton

Thank you Tracy for the best tutorial on hat drawing I've ever seen.

Ferret Williams

Working on a comic involving a straw hat on a ferret... because of you I'm making sure to include a goofy chinny strap.

Ariel H

Oh gosh, I just love your sense of humor. This is great. and very informative.

geckosart

You are just a gem and your tutorials and artistic endeavors are all amazing~

Astra Crompton

Your tutorials always give me a good belly-laugh AND learning, so this was money well-spent <3