How do I create this specific illustration in Illustrator?

[Anne Louise G32978418rb4t]

I'm able to make a tunnel using blend, but I can not figure out how to make it so you look from within the tunnel and with the turn to the right. Do any of you have an idea? Thank you 🙂

[Monika Gause]

So this is the result you want? Or this ios what you have?

[Anne Louise G32978418rb4t]

Yes, this is the result I want. I only have an expanded version, but need to build it up again, so I can work with it 🙂

[Monika Gause]

It is kind of tricky, but I could get it this way:

Build one half of it out of this (the red one is the spine and you can use the automatically generated spine and edit it)

The dots are like this:

And then mirror it:

[Anne Louise G32978418rb4t]

Thank you very much for your time and help 🙂