more on Kathleen Hale 'vs' Quentin Blake

Context:
K Hale started designing dust-jackets for WH Smith, and illustrated children's books. Married 1926 - bored. 1938 Started Series of children's books Orlando the Marmalade Cat (A camping holiday). Link between what goes on in her life and stories. Last one 1972 (Orlando and the water rats). OBE 1976.

Q Blake: Involved with Chelsea School of Art, Institute of education, taught RCA over 20 years -  Illustration. OBE 1988
1999 Children's laureate, collaborated with Roald Dahl. Remembers drawing from young age.  Made living from illustrations and cartoons (eg Punch), also exhibition curator and made public art for hospitals. He is a patron of the big draw.
I was interested to compare his personal life with Hale's to see if the amount of time they could devote to their art was comparable (families/children). All I found is that Blake never had children, in a wonderful article. Liked the article especially because it gives a sense of how blakes tries to convey an idea, how does he go about it.
guardian article

Style/Imagery:
K. Hale: colourful illustrations. Complimentary colours. Cats in human poses/actions. quirky, humorous and stylised.
Q Blake:  spontaneous look. pen and  watercolours. Imagery inspired from the stories he illustrates (many with children) imagination important, people, animals, contraptions. Also purpose: hospital entrance - to cheer up sick patients (alien pushing trolley)  see Blake's work for hospitals

Production:

K. Hale:  Pencil and watercolour sometimes with crayon  (e.g. Orlando and Grace afloat, 1955 or ABicycle made for 5, 1938).  For the Orlando books, many pages were hand-lithographed and that gave them a painterly look (www.charlottecory.com).
Q Blake:  Fast scribbly ink lines. Pen and ink and watercolours, pens: with nibs or bamboo or quills. Gives black line a very varying thickness and expressiveness.
Blake says he likes to sketch and then use a light box (standing up!). The image below his paper is visible but not 100% clearly, so he can be fluid and spontaneous with his line. I can understand that easily as I've learnt to write with pen and ink at school. A line that is not spontaneous is not right, it just looks terrible. Lots of info on  Quentin Blake Official Website.