Thanks John and Selden! You guy's have given me more information then I can handle, so much so that I haven't had much time to work on the actual map.

So I've decided to take you're advice Selden and back off a little, and now I'm just focusing on learning about tectonics, and trying to get the coasts in place which is not a small job. I've started to gain some rhythm jumping between Equirectangular, Robinson, and the Winkle Triple projections to even out the distortion and then periodically checking it on a 3D globe, though all the back and forth has changed the coasts drastically and I'm still just working with basic forms for now until I can get to a compromise that I can deal with in regards to distortion.

I hope to get an update up soon, but I'd like to get a little further ahead before I do that.