Hats, broadly speaking can be argued to be constructed of cylinders. In term of wide-rimmed hats, cylinders on top of cylinders. Caps could deter from this generalisation, but technically you should be able to use the same method and simply “cut out” a section of your bottom cylinder for the shade.
So hats will naturally rely on your capacity for simple shapes, moreso simple shapes in perspective. Practising drawing cylinders and cones can help you get a grip of this. If you work digitally, you can, however, cheat a tiny bit, and draw one good circle - then copy-paste it and transform it as necessary for the top/ or bottom. then connect the two circles to make for a cylinder ( be it the ‘head’ of the hat, or the rim )
Always remember that regardless of what type you’re drawing, there is almost always a bit of thickness to the rim, which is why I argue that the bottom of the hat can also be sketched out to be a very flat cylinder rather than just a circle. Including an accent or outline to this will greatly improve the tangibility of your drawn hat.
Unless your hat’s rim is completely stiff, I would always recommend adding a little bit of deviation from the perfect circle shape. this can be a dent or a curve. It adds a bit of personality to your hat and - once again, makes it seem much more tangible.
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