OUGD405 | Studio Brief 01 - Rocks and Gems

I had had difficulty with drawing or tracing gems on illustrator as the patterns and shapes are very complicated. I was going to photograph some gems but I do not have suitable camera.
I overheard some students talking about live tracing, so I taught myself to do this out of interest and I felt that this could be applied to the rocks and gems. I took some photos of pinterest and google images as an experiment and I came up with the designs above. I like the result - but I feel like I didn't really do any work to get the designs. I plan to continue these experiments with gems and see where I end up!