World Map vs partial/continent map and coloration!

[Ascension]

This is up to you and what you're comfortable with. I like to do up a while world just to know where everything is then just focus on one continent then on one region of the continent then one town then one pub.

[Hai-Etlik]

Full globes are tricky as distortion from projecting the globe onto a flat map becomes impossible to ignore. The smaller the area you cover ("larger scale" in cartography jargon. Yes it's counterintuitive at first but there's a good reason for it.), the easier it is to just "wing it" and have a map that will work.

If you want to start fitting those continents together, or if you want to have things like graticules, scales, rhumb lines, and compass roses, then things get more complex.