The Brand Spuit

This is a drawing of the "Brand Spuit" or in other words: an old-school 'Fire Station'. I spent about an hour and a half to two hours on it. I saw it and thought it looked really great and went back, first time my hand has drawn with pencil in over 2 months.
I think the markers have been a good practice for working without an eraser (more drawings with marker to come), and I think they've really affected me to use less lines, only what I need and get them in the right place to start with. Eraser's used to be the bane of my existence as I relied so heavily on them. I never really could draw properly without erasing every couple of seconds.

Plus those tiles were hell. First drew a grid, then tons of little arches, then the diagonal lines and then re-shaded below all the little arches. Bushes of ivy were also difficult, still not terribly happy with them. Coupla mistakes here or there (forgot to bring an eraser :p). Still going to go back and try and re-shade the whole thing, get more contrast in it.

P.S. Tried to clear off the shadow on the bottom of the page from the scanner and paper-bending, but could only get it so far.