Hello all. My name is Melvin Todd and this is the site of said guy. I personally hate reading bios, so I'll let you know that we are instantly cool if you can make it through all of the text you see below, lol.
I was born in Mobile, Alabama and that is where I honed all my lil drawing talents. It became evident to me that I could draw in second grade, when I noticed that my ninja turtles looked a bit more like the cartoon than my classmates (well unless they traced, but I didn't need too, lol). As a kid, I was always drawing comics. I had a need to make one everytime I finished one up. It was kind of cool to have that kind of work ethic so young. I aready knew that I wanted to be a cartoonist.
I did that til I went to high school where I stopped drawing comics altogether (I blame girls honestly), but I never stopped drawing. My school had a great art program which had a focus in realism (shout out to my teacher Linda Holman). This is where my technical skills came in and I learned to draw what I see. Soon life like drawings were my main focus and took up the bulk of my portfolio where I recieved a perfect score on my AP portfolio (trust it's not easy to get that score).
Fast forward to 2003, the beginning of my college years, and I am in the tattoo shop (the Voodoo Needle) with my roommate as he is about to get a tattoo. The shop was looking for apprentices, so I sat down and drew some girls I think (hell I can't remember). At any rate Nathan Voodoo called me a couple days later and told me I had been hired. I served out my apprenticeship there and stayed there for five years. Alabama was cool, but I had a greater calling and I wanted to get to bigger and better tattoos. so I moved to Atlanta and joined the famous City of Ink.
I have been given the oppurtunity to grow as not only a tattoo artist, but an artist in general. I have the best mentors I could ever ask for in Miya Bailey and Tuki Carter. They challenge me on a daily basis and are not subtle into enocouraging me into knowing that I'm on the path of being a superstar artist. I'm far from my peak. so I appreciate them for it.
These days as my clientele grows and I find myself booked a few weeks or so in advance. I'm glad to say that my day job is everything I could want it to be. Now I am developing LoveLess Society and am eager to get it out to everyone. While they started as simple designs, the people have made it more. I can't wait to really get into what it is all about, but once the site lauches on Valentine's day 2012, just know that you guys are in for a treat. I hope to instill the same dedication into Loveless as I have with my tattoos.
Congrats...you made it to the end. Sorry for all that talking. Feel free to contact me if you have anymore questions.
Mr. Melvin Todd
LoveLess Society CEO
