Sequential drawing for 'The Curse of the Werewolf'

Five sequential charcoal and ink drawings made by Roy Ashton (1909-1995) in 1960. The drawings, on one sheet of paper, detail the transformation from man to Werewolf in 'The Curse of the Werewolf' (1961). Working from a sketch of the wolf's head, Ashton begins the gradual process of overlaying a wolf's characteristics onto human features.

Roy Ashton (1909–95) and Phil Leakey (1908–92) were master make-up artists who worked on many of the British cult horror films of the mid-20th century. A trained artist, Australia-born Ashton began his career at Gaumont-British Film Corporation in 1932 as a means of supplementing his passion for opera singing. In 1955, Ashton became the assistant to Hammer Films’ Phil Leakey, the first makeup artist to receive on-screen credit for ‘Special Make-up Effects’.