Outdrawing

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The action of creating more visual representations than another entity involves a competitive aspect of increasing artistic output beyond that of peers
2. The act of creating a greater number of sketches or illustrations in comparison to someone else
3. Generating a higher quantity of drawn images than another person or group

Etymology: "Outdraw" carries a sense that has little to do with drawing in the artistic sense: in Old English, "ūtdragan" meant to carry or draw something out, to take it away or extract it. Its Proto-Germanic ancestor reached into Old English as a physical action, pulling things out of places, and that literal sense survives in cousins across the family, such as Dutch "uitdragen" and German "austragen," both still meaning to carry out or deliver. English later added the "drawing" of pictures to its range, and the meaning of "outdraw" narrowed toward competition: to draw more than another person, or to be quicker in drawing a weapon. The word here is the form used for that comparative activity, where one artist's sketches or illustrations are measured against another's. The word's parts are plain: "out-" meaning beyond or more than, and "draw," which in this sense means to produce a picture with a pencil or pen.

Synonyms: overshadowing, surpassing