Im playing a sneak archer just because I love archery, and going like a warrior durable archer didn't make sense to me, but anyway It was cool for a while with Lydia (R.I.P.) around to be my meatshield but now shes dead and gone so when I'm walking around/exploring when big shet catches me off guard im screwed.

Are there more low level friendly areas or quests or is everything skyrim based off your current level?

I see lots of people doing the whole blacksmithing thing but I don't want to do that quite yet, I have only fought 2 dragons anyway and I want to spend my early level perks on things that will effect gameplay, instead of getting armor that effectively brings the difficulty below novice.

Well let me rephrase this is there a good place to grind and level up some skills because doing it on the fly while trying to fight elite/boss status people is really difficult with an archer if I can snipe down everyone before the fight starts

Im thinking of re rolling as the arcetypal bad ass shield sword nord almost getting tired of running from battles