Back to the drawing board

I gave myself with a drawing task. I chose a word at random from a book and decided to draw it. I also gave myself a five-minute time limit.

My first choice was "Cairo." I thought about drawing Africa, but that seemed kind of hard to do in a short amount of time. Without drawing some African continental blob with an arrow pointing to Egypt.

The second word I saw was "target." Also not exciting. Unless I draw the retail store, which could be interesting, I suppose. But again... not in five minutes.

The third word I saw (picking at random from a book next to me) was "group."

Yes.

I drew most of the above in five minutes. Then I upped my limit to 10 minutes because I wanted to give Herbert Applebottom a bow tie. Ten minutes became 15 as I futzed with the hair on the ballerina (in the pink) and changed her skin tone from a weird oyster color to Caucasian #4. I haven't decided on a name for her, but I'm circling around something in the "Kit" family.

Yeah, I give them names. I've done so for drawings for as long as I can remember, which clearly (and inexplicably, if you ask me) bothered a long-ago coworker who, upon seeing drawings tacked up in my cubicle, assumed I had been drawing pictures of friends. I remember very well her 'cuckoo for cocoa puffs' look right before she walked away. Probably to buy something beige for her bland-ass life. But I'm bitter.

I haven't come up with names for the rest yet. The green triangle lady is me, kinda, but she's also tall and thin, so she might be Helen Willis from the Jeffersons.

I like Herbert the best. I did not draw him like Ernie from Sesame Street on purpose. It just happened.

This might make a good feature because it was a lot of fun. I got away from regularly posting drawings here far too long ago.

I think the tall purple fellow should be Pez. He's a candy salesman.

Herbert manages a restaurant. Something like Big Boy.

What do you think? Can you help me come up with names and background info for the others?