First ventures in polymer clay

I felt like having a go at working with polymer clay, so here are my first three efforts. I've got a long way to go. I really haven't mastered the art of rolling out regular sausages, rather than sausages that vary in thickness in a pattern that bears a suspicious resemblance to the shape of my fingers and the gaps between them. I need to get much better at creating an environment free from dust and fluff, since the clay appears to have a magnetic effect on such things, and they all go swoooosh and land on whatever I'm trying to work on. But here's a start. I'm actually fairly pleased with them, given that they're first efforts.

( Pictures of first efforts )

Many years ago, I made a few things out of DAS air-drying clay, and it's interesting to compare the two. Polymer clay is easier, I think. If you lightly press two pieces together, they instantly stick, and fuse together when baked. With the DAS, it look a lot of effort to get two separate pieces to stick together firmly without falling apart. Also, the polymer clay stays soft for as long as you need it to be soft. The DAS was forever drying while I was working on it, when I was doing things like hands and noses and the pointy bits of dragons and lions. It's much easier to do fine, small work with the polymer clay. However, the DAS was a lot more tolerant of fingerprints and errors, which could easily be smoothed over. If you go wrong with the polymer clay, it seems much harder to repair it, short of peeling the bit off and trying it again.