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Sta.sh
*trolling*
-HMP
That's a pretty poor way to phrase it, because I'd really have to say that there is no "correct" way to interpret artwork, or that if there is, it is often found in a very gray area.
You could throw an ink blotted drawing that you made into a crowd of people-- get 100 completely different answers as to what people think it looks like or means-- and it doesn't matter that you want it to be a pterodactyl, because that guy over there saw a rabbit. The less clear that your artwork is, the more definitions that you'll find springing up in response to it. And while sometimes it may be the viewer simply looking at the work upside down, often times it is not. Often times the artist needs to step back and realize "I made my work unclear." You get no where by assuming that everyone who says even the slightest negative comment about your work is a "hater" rather than an objective viewer. This is how you come to accumulate ACTUAL haters, by treating everyone that gives you an honest opinion as a satanic rat that most ASSUREDLY is wrong.
The comic that you linked to is about 2,000 steps ahead of yours in this way. While you have the objective viewer drawn as an angry sod off with a pompous air, the other comic managed to illustrate a character that the artist did not necessarily agree with-- while also maintaining a positive air to their appearance. (Protip: Draw people you disagree with as actual people, not trolls. It makes your argument appear more viable.)
In addition, the artist in the comic you linked is bettered at the end not because they are taught to ignore the objective view and live knowing that 3/4 people understood it and will defend me-- gOOD ENOUGH-- but by actually LEARNING something from the experience and getting a different view on their artwork that will help them to better future works.
You'd have done better just linking that comic in the first place. You do not give very beneficial advice.