Welcome, stiltbeast!
Again, to Icewolf's credit, the illustration was offered with the disclaimer about the wings.
I see you're on the mark with the old lore--the ointment or donning the skin. If you're looking at classical lore, about the only movie out there that is even close to faithful is
The Company of Wolves, a surreal independent film. I consider it a must-see.
However, many of the constructs of the twentieth century have become grandfathered into the collective consciousness, and thus the "consensus werewolf" that represents to what most of us relate will tend to have at least some of the features that you probably dislike.
The infectious bite, and for that matter, the concept of lycanthropy as a condition rather than a type of spell-casting, is a 20th century notion, but that's where most of us got started, and most of us have developed our ideas around that model. A variant--the idea of hereditary lycanthropy--has also worked its way in, but most of us go for the infectious bite. I'll admit it--it's a corruption of vampire lore. But, I've used it before in hundreds of daydreams, and I'll continue to use it until I die.
Full moons are also mostly contemporary. But, it's also grandfathered in since the 1930s, and I'm one of the very few who don't use it in stories. I still feel strong ties with the full moon myself, but I'm a Wiccan; we do that anyway. I also suspect that even if full moons had nothing to do with shape-shifting, a newly turned werewolf might be tempted to create some correlation anyway, or assign some ceremonial or spiritual significance to the full moon.
Silver--same, except there are actual obscure legends about silver bullets blessed by priests. Basically, silver was considered "pure," and werewolves not. There are just as many legends relating to vampires, but 1940s cinema gave silver bullets to werewolves, since vampires already had the stake through the heart. (I think of a great scene in the movie
Love at First Bite, in which a vampire hunter tries to kill Dracula by shooting three silver bullets through his heart. Dracula answers with a sigh, "no, that is a verevulf." Then, police appear and haul him off to jail, while he shouts, "No! He's not dead! He's not a werewolf!"
The anthropomorphic "furry" look, while considered too serene and benevolent by some standards, is still a lot closer to the consensus werewolf image than the vast majority of cinema. I would consider the closest thing to the definitive consensus werewolf image to be
Goldenwolf's art.
Taking a Gestalt approach, since it's the "in" thing...
les
