Self critique of Identity project

Well the showing for the identity projects our class did came and went, and alot of people came up with some really impressive works. In fact, I was rather surprised as to the extent in which some people told so much about themselves to the class. And then there was my project. A somewhat crummy attempt to paint one of my cartoon-like characters onto a mirror for a piece, which didn't end up looking exactly visually stunning.
heres two views of the final project:

















It's not exactly stunning (I'm absolutely god-awful with paints in general. But I figured I should take a try with a media I'm not familiar with.) but this is what I ended up with. All things considered it really could have been worse, but I feel like I could have tried something different than painting on a mirror - which, I find out now, is really, really hard - and maybe come up with something a bit more creative.
But nonetheless, this piece in general was special to me for various reasons. I'll try to sum it up quickly:
Ever since i was a child I've wanted to draw: cartoons, comics, or just little character or scene creations, it wouldn't matter; I'd have fun drawing it. And I wasn't that awful at it, but for some reason for about 6 or 7 years after I turned 8 I just... stopped. And during that time I happened to undergo a severe depression. Now I'm certain I don't need to explain the sorts of depression - I'm sure people have a good idea what depression is usually - so instead I'll jump to the next part. Around my sophomore year of high school I had gotten absolutely sick of being so damn depressed all the time. I didn't really even know why, I just was! So one day I sat down and thought about what I used to do that would make me happy. The answer wasn't really long in coming, I suppose all I needed was to actually ask the question: I was happy when I was drawing. So I started back up. I decided to try making my own characters, something I had always wanted to do, but never knew how to. I learned while drawing my little cartoons and comics that characters designed themselves as much as anything, many times the jokes felt less like pre-planned and blocked out ideas and more like some sort of genuine interactions between the characters on the pages. And after a while I also learned something else about my drawing: it had struck me that many of my characters represented different aspects of myself, even if they were originally based on people and friends I knew at the time. I realized that in many ways I had been using these comic strips and drawings as a way to physically think through and deal with problems that had been bothering me on an extremely personal level, and I was using them also as a way to vent my various fears, anxieties, and angers. Even suicide really didn't seem like an option anymore, once I took drawing and art back up. It was as if the whole world had opened up and for once since my childhood I was actually able to just step outside and appreciate how completely beautiful the world really is. I owe a lot to these silly little cartoon characters I created, but it's just so difficult to explain.
Hell, when I got up in front of the group to explain mine I pretty much forgot almost everything I wanted to say. I never was very good at communication.

So... self critique:
My project is one of my characters, in this case an anthropormorphic cat, painted onto a mirror in a position like he's drawing on something on the desktop. There is a sketchbook placed in front of him with an unfinished cartoon drawing of myself penciled in. On the opposing page, but oriented in the manner in which someone would be drawing on it (if you're right handed, turn it upside down so the binding is on left, etc.) with a few doodles of three of my characters, the most prominent one being of the cat character in question. The idea was one of a non-representational self portrait drawing itself in a way, while on the opposing page it itself is in the process of being finished and detailed. A tough idea to portray effectively, though. I probably could have done something different.
I don't really know what to critique here. I suppose if there was something I would want to improve it would be that the painting on the mirror could be a little cleaner, maybe something that seemed more like a finished painting than a quick toss of paint onto a surface. But that's really more of a technique issue, not a conceptual one. I think the piece would also bee a bit stronger if I had inked the little drawings in the sketchbook, making them more visible to onlookers. As a whole I'm not exactly happy with how it came out, I just sort of feel like I didn't do that great a job.

I'm not really sure what else I need to be saying about it.