How would I go about about recreating this ribbon effect?

[DjMrEon]

New to Illustrator, taking logo design classes. 🙂 Tried using blend modes, splines etc. but everything ends up tubular. It seems to have a set width like a stroke but how it folds over and blends within its stroke profile is beyond me.

Help!

[barbara_a]

Draw the individual shapes and fill each with an appropriate gradient to give the ribbon effect.

[tonyharmer]

Hey!

You've picked a really good one there! I'm going to record you a video to show how it could be done—stay tuned!

🙂

[tonyharmer · Accepted solution]

Here you go:

[tonyharmer]

Oh, and by the way, if you want to find out how to add that background, you could check out this video: 

or this one:

Hope that all helps! 🙂

[DjMrEon]

Oh my gosh!

Thanks so much for the thorough responce. In a Youtube video nonetheless 🙂

I appreciate your time to walk through everything step-by-step.

Simply Awesome!!

[Monika Gause]

Don't use strokes. You need shapes for this.

Here's a similar design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCAuVb9RDlI

Fill this kind of thing with gradients instead of solid colors and you get your design

[kphotopage]

DjMrEon, Hi

To add to what has already been mentioned, here is a file with separate filled color paths.

Create some gradients. Fill each shape with a gradient.

To adjust your gradient, use the Gradient tool.

Add a small weight stroke to each shape, I just use a light brown.

At the end, I Grouped and rotated -45 angle.

K