About 4 years ago, my wife and I went to Vancouver, Canada. We had her dog with us. After visiting a museum, we arrived at a park. And we took vacation photos in front of old sculpture. That’s when something terrible happened.

My wife screamed and said “Oh, no, no, no, NO!” What has he done this time? The dog peed on the foot of the sculpture. A week before, he ate my lunch pizza and tore my pillow. I couldn’t take it any more. I had no choice. I told my wife to close her eyes so that I could punish him physically. But I couldn’t do it. I’m always nice to animals and didn’t want to hurt my reputation. My wife suggested that we leave him a present. “Give him what?,” I said. She said that he could use my hat. Why mine!? Oh, well… I got MacBook out of my backpack and launched Adobe Illustrator CS2. In a matter of 5 minutes or so, I created a hat and gave it to him.. Once he looked angry, but he then smiled again.

The following tutorial shows simple steps to create a 3D hat with Adobe Illustrator CS2. The photo used in this tutorial comes from FreePhotosBank. Continue reading →