And then improve them when your smithing is above lvl 50 (1 dwarwen metal ingot). craft dwarven bows once you are lvl 30 and can choose the corresponding perk (2 dwarwen metal ingots,1 iron ingot), lots of them.craft leather bracers (1 leather, 2 leather strips) from lvl 15 to lvl 30, you should have lots of pelts and hide from roaming Skyrim, why wouldn't you take advantage of those ? ).Here's how to get to smithing 100 easily :