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I've done a few sketches over the years, nothing that I'd frame but enough for me to recall what it looks like through the eyepiece. If you don't start somewhere you'll never get any better! At ASWA we always encourage drawings on our lunar nights as it helps you to see so many little details that you would otherwise gloss over.
A couple of tips - get some B pencils, 2B, 4B and softer if you like.
Get a soft, squishy rubber as well as a hard one, it sometimes help to soften the lines.
And...
The best tip I ever got was to get a smudge stick. This is a pencil size tightly rolled stick of paper that you can sharpen in a pencil sharpner, but it works to smooth out or smudge any large areas of shading (or thick lines). You might need to go to a specialist art shop to get one but they last a while so they're a good investment.
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