Plane help with creating hair

I have Blender, ZBrush, Maya, and DAZ all available.

I'm trying to make hair using planes. I'm going for an anime style, however, so I want the planes to appear as spikes, as planes naturally appear as long rectangles. Is there a way to do this?

Also, is there a way to "paint" planes onto an object? Making planes requires you to start with a square shape and pull it out, so I want to know, is there a way to manually draw them out already as planes?

Thank you very much in advance.