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As for the chain, I can suggest a trace from your drawing to create a single link without a background using the pen tool. Then create an ellipse shape to serve as a guide and copy paste/rotate the chainlink (with slight erasing to clean it up) along the shape border to form the circular chain array.

For the inner most ring....  create the ring shape and use that to create a workpath which you can edit with the pen tool with the inner shape to correspond and opposite in direction to each sun ray.. When done, convert the path into a selection and fill black on a new layer....

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Note.... I followed your procedure of copy paste and rotate 15 degrees which I suppose you used to create the ray formation.

Quite about covers it, I think..... hope you can manage to figure this part out..... Just ask if you need more clarification.

I share ALB68's tjhoughts that this should be created in AI or any vector application. But we have to assume you don't use Illustrator and would rather prefer doing this in PS.

But if you prefer a much, much quicker solution to your need and would still want to do it yourself, follow Larry's advice to trace the drawing in Illustrator.  Even better still, there's the gif and vector conversion courtesy of Sam and Larry........