This study seeks to understand how hand-drawn diagrams are made to represent ideas related to the cause of the seasons. It draws from a set of diagrams produced by a sample of high school students (N=652) in the United States who were asked to describe their naive understandings regarding the cause of the seasons. Using codes applied to students’ short, written explanations of the cause of the seasons and codes applied to drawings that were produced, this paper describes patterns seen across diagrams and identifies a few depiction trends associated with specific categories of explanations.