Reflecting on self portrait project

I shared my self portrait with the group and I explained to them the purpose and my plans for my self portrait. They liked the self portrait of myself but since that was all that was there they weren't able to do a lot of critiquing on my work. But they did give me good feedback on my intentions for the final project.They told me that my work up to this point was good. I need to develope my ideas and put them onto my project to make it original because without my ideas it is just a portrait of myself.