Need help redrawing this logo.

[Albacore]

The way that you tried to do this would not give you any chance of Blending you would need to make smaller shapes and blend them to the background. Have a look at this, it is not really finished but it is a way that you could do it and the add smaller shapes. Because I am using a older version of Illy and the file gets change to a PDF on upload your file changed quite radically with fill being changed to bitmaps so I had to make the bird larger to cover the feathering and trans that I did> I am sorry I have no more time to spend on it as I have to go to work but have a try to improve the drawing by adding more shapes and removing the linear colour fill to a flat red.