How to create Santa Claus Hat icon in Adobe Illustrator

Hello folks! Today in our new article series ‘Icon Design Tutorial’, we are designing Santa Claus Hat icon in Flat Style in few simple steps. We are using Adobe Illustrator 2017.

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1. Setup New Document

Open Adobe Illustrator. Create a New Document (File -> New or Ctrl+N or Command+N) with the following description:

• Width: 32px
• Height: 32px
• Artboards: 1
• Color Mode: RGB
• Orientation: Vertical (Checked first icon)

2. Setup Grid & Guides

Step 1:

Open Preferences dialog (Edit -> Preferences -> Guides & Grid)

• Gridline every: 5px
• Subdivisions: 5

Step 2:

Please ensure Snap option active.

View -> Snap to Grid & Snap to Point

3. Santa Claus Hat Phase 1

Step 1:

Grab Rectangle Tool (M) and create a 25 x 25 px Square at the center of Artboard.

• Width: 25px
• Height: 25px
• Stroke: 0px
• Fill: Color: Red (#ef4a4c)

Step 2:

Select upper two points of square and make both Corner Radius to 3.5px.

• Left Radius: 3.5px
• Right Radius: 3.5px

Step 3:

Make a copy of Square with Alt + -> (Right Arrow Key) and shift copied Square to 2px Right side and give shadow effect with the fill color.

• Fill: Color: Red (#e0313f)

Step 4:

Grab Rectangle Tool (M) and create a 3 x 13 px Rectangle.

• Width: 3px
• Height: 13px
• Position: X: 24px; Y: 22px
• Stroke: 0px
• Fill: Color: Any color

Select Left upper Anchor point and give corner radius to it.

Step 5:

Open Pathfinder from Window -> Pathfinder or Shift + Ctrl + F9.

Select all both objects and perform Minus Front (Second option in Shape Modes) from Shape Modes.

4. Santa Claus Hat Phase 2

Step 1:

Grab Rectangle Tool (M) and create a 21 x 7 px Rectangle.

• Width: 21px
• Height: 7px
• Position: X: 13px; Y: 26px
• Stroke: 0px
• Fill: Color: White (#eef2fa)

Select all Rectange points and make round corner to 2px.

Step 2:

Grab Ellipse tool (L) and create 5 x 5 px first Circle.

• Width: 5px
• Height: 5px
• Stroke: 0px
• Position: X: 27px; Y: 20px
• Fill: Color: White (#eef2fa)

Select Red object, select tailing rectangle points and shift it upwards behind circle like shown in below image.

Step 3:

Grab Rectangle Tool (M) and create a 4 x 10 px Rectangle.

• Width: 4px
• Height: 10px
• Position: X: 22.5px; Y: 20.5px
• Stroke: 0px
• Fill: Color: Red (#e0313f)

Select uper left point and make corner radius to 2px.

Step 5:

Duplicate Red Hat object and perform Intersect operation with Rectangle.

Open Pathfinder from Window -> Pathfinder or Shift + Ctrl + F9.

Select both objects and perform Intersect (Third option in Shape Modes) from Shape Modes.

Step 6:

Make a copy of Circle with Alt + -> (Right Arrow Key) and shift copied Circle to 2px Right side and give shadow effect with the fill color.

• Fill: Color: White (#d5e5f2)

Make a copy of Rectangle with Alt + -> (Right Arrow Key) and shift copied Rectangle to 2px Right side and give shadow effect with the fill color.

• Fill: Color: White (#d5e5f2)

5. Santa Claus Hat Phase 3

Step 1:

Grab Ellipse tool (L) and create 21 x 21 px Circle.

• Width: 21px
• Height: 21px
• Stroke: 1px
• Position: X: 16px; Y: 15px
• Color: White (#e85d64)

Select Circle and put Start angle at 90 degree and End angle at 180 degree. Select corner anhor point and delete it.

Step 2:

Make a line of 1px with the following position.

• Position: X: 5.5px; Y: 17.5px

Make 3 circle of 1px and put it for decoration as shown in below image.

Final Output:

Over to you

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