The brickpattern can barelly be seen, if you decide to make it more visible warp it to fit the form.
Use some reference to help you with the entry:
http://www.grandmas-attic.com/images/a2331.jpg

I wish I had seen this image earlier. Thanks for the suggestion greymval.

You can get inspired from it, but not use it or reproduce it, since it's copyrighted.
I posted it so that you can see the proportions, mood, lighting & how an entry should look.
The lighthouse is your MAIN so it would be better to be more detailed and occupy more space, for starters.
You can search for lighthouses on sxc, you should find plenty of shapes and environments to enspire you there.
You can edit your entry if you want to improve it My stuff-My contest entries.
There you have it: the 3 "you can"s. :P

I respect the effect you were trying to achieve, but rather see step five as the finished entry. I would just create a new layer, fill it with black, set the blend mode to color dodge, and then with a soft white 5% opacity brush paint where you want light. Painting over brighter areas with more brush strokes. Then I would create a new layer fill it with a brown color and set the layer blend mode to color and set the opacity of the layer around 25%. This will give you a more dramatic scene. good luck!

Thanks. I will try that and reply about outcome.

very good dark contrast the waves is just incredible. good work

Great work. There is so much going on yet the composition makes the image very easy on the eye. Nice sbs too!

coolness!

Another masterpiece, love your illustration and borrowing of parts! Pretty cool work - did you count the layers? LOL

This could not be better than . good luck

very neat work author...best of luck

Amazing work, full of delicacy.

Another master peace

Many thanks to all for the nice comments and favs!

Hopefully I did everything ok this time last one I did got yanked and was unclear as to why or how I could have fixed what ever I had done wrong, So we will see if this flies or is yanked??? ; )

lol

Looks good, but both source links lead to the same image...

Cool

Thanks Cmyk46 working on that woops now!

There we go!

Nice work.....shape of the hour glass is a little bit typical and not symmetrical....Other than that a nice work...Also you could work on the reflection of the hour glass on the table as well....

Looks quite evil . Perhaps the edges from the fangs could look a bit sharper. Good luck!

I knew this picture would turn to the darkside...Good work!

I'd say sharpen the fangs a little....