Good stuff and a great sketch too! Always great to see obs reports here
I find clusters take alot of time to sketch, as you have to accurately position what seem like hundreds of stars!
Finding direction when looking into the eyepiece can be a bit tricky, but one easy way to work out
west is that it's the direction the object is drifting through in the eyepiece as the Earth turns. Finding north on the other hand isnt so easy. One way I do it is move the telescope north - any "new" sky entering the Field of view will be from the north.
However this only works for objects near the meridian.
Also you can look up DSS images of the object you've viewed - these have north up, so you can match the orientation of stars in your sketch to the image, then you'll find which way north is.