 During the Second World War, Todd received a number of short-term commissions from the War Artists' Advisory Committee to depict individuals serving on the British Home Front.Throughout his career, Todd held a number of teaching posts, most notably as a tutor at the Royal Academy schools between 1946 and 1949, but also as the master of the life class at the Regent Street Polytechnic in 1939 and as head of drawing and painting at the Leicester School of Art between 1936 and 1939.Todd's last teaching post was at City and Guilds of London Art School in Kensington from 1950 to 1956.