NEED HELP! Image trace in AI

[Jules]

What you are looking for is to create a Center Line Trace. It’s probably not going to look the same as handwriting (which tends to not be uniform in nature), but we do have a tutorial for it:

How to get a Centerline Trace in Illustrator

A Centerline Trace is important if you want to take an image that consists of unfilled lines, like a coloring book page, and place just one path for cutting or scoring down the center of the lines that you see on the page. The default Live Trace option in Illustrator doesn’t create that kind of result without special modifications being made to the Live Trace settings used. The normal default will result in a filled compound shape, with vector paths placed into the interface wherever there is …