Help drawing nice smooth curves

[D4vew557]

Hi there i'm hoping someone can help me.

My plan is to make the arches of this focus look like the are carbon fibre (which i'm still working on) but i cant get it to follow the nice smooth curve of the orginal arch.



and as you can see it looks very poor. is there some way to cet nice curves?

[kennykro]

Are you familiar with the pen tool?

[D4vew557]

I have had little experience with it. I have used it to get the curve i needed for this arch. Took me hours to get it how i wanted. I think i need to spend more time playing around with it.
any tips welcome

[kennykro]

Go through some pen tool tutorials.

[mglavina]

+1 for what Kenny said!

Exactly for what you are doing the pen tool would be appropriate. A really easy way is to just draw the arch with the pen tool making nice curves, connect the lines and then right click > make selection and then you have a curved selection.

Delete/erase the excess CF!