If you have photoshop or other drawing program(more advanced then MS paint):
I'd use this texture - https://www.cgtextures.com/texview.ph...13503da74dac2d
Desaturated with some red and yellow to your liking, and add a bump map and a specular map based on it too(play around with brightness and contrast). Get higher, solid specular value and no bumps for the tips and ribbon.
That should mimic it pretty well...
Hope it helps,
Benny
When in doubt, delete history and freeze transformations.
My latest snake game
(Requires DirectX9 SDK and Framework)