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Well done Patrick. As the others have suggested, try to render the stars with neater dots. The nebulae look pretty good. I used to sketch back in the 1980's and used to use a couple of fine tipped felt pens for stars and a soft pure graphite pencil for galaxies and nebulae. It's hard to do a finished sketch at the eyepiece without ruining your dark adaptation - red light or no red light. Plotting the field stars first accurately was always the first step. Larger dots for brighter stars. I found it was good for teaching how to observe better, but slow!!! Three or four objects a session. Almost discovered a supernova in one of the brighter galaxies one night (a week late as I later found out). I just compared the sketch with a photo. Ah, what's that extra star??? Every visual observer's dream. There is some excellent astronomical sketching advice on the net. Keep it up mate!!
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