Abstract Heart is a project that started off as a cover concept for a scientific journal, and then ended up being so much more in terms of colour and texture exploration in Blender. 

The base model was sculpted in Pixologic Brush and rendered in Blender Cycles. 

I used a marble colouring texture in order to get the rings, along with a plastic texture and a metallic texture for the coronary arteries. Here are three different takes on these textures combos.