Please help me to understand how to make this design. I have been trying various things…

[annabellec57474222]

 

[Mylenium]

You could re-create it using a blend in AI, but it's still a lot of manual work. You'd have to expand the blend to adjust the individual gradients and merge lines.

Mylenium

[Monika Gause]

It's a blend between an ellipse and a circle.

They both have different gradients and are maybe rotated.

To rotate something inside a belnd properly, you have to use the transform effect, so you apply transform effects to both elements and then blend.

The effects can be edited afterwards to adjust everything.

[kphotopage]

Annabelle, Hi.

Here I recreated similar using Effects>Transform.

Draw two Circles, align. Group.

(The larger circle, fill with None. I showed in green so you could see.)

On the Group, Effects> Transform, apply these settings.

Expand.

Flip and Rotate.

Add a gradient along your Strokes.

K