Of all the different parts to draw, the hair takes the longest for the anime or hentai manga artist to master. For female hair the beginner must start with simple hair lines drawn across the face of your character starting about 1 ½ higher than the height of the eyes. Anime or hentai hair always consists of two parts: the front bangs that cover the face and the larger rear portion that flows down the back of the head. Starting at the hair line, the artist should draw curvy lines down the forehead which will eventually be the bangs. The back part of the hair will curve outward and down towards the shoulders. Fill in these lines making them thicker in order to create a realistic look.
Typically drawing male hair is easier for the beginning artist because it has less detail. As in the female hair the hairline should begin approximately 1 ½ above the eyes, but unlike female hair it consists of only one part. The artist should combine the front and back portions into a single piece.
There are different accents and modes to all hentai hairstyles. The hair of a ‘cool’ character tends to be wilder and pointy at the ends. Extreme hairstyles such as spikes and exceptionally long female sweeping hair while are sometimes used in general mangas and anime characters, they tend to get in the way of the sexual action in hentai productions. The exception is ecchi hentai mangas.
Ecchi are ‘soft-porn’ hentai where many of the images are of the teasing pin-up variety. Here long hair is used to artfully conceal various portions of the female anatomy, giving the viewer a teasing glimpse of a breast or nipple while deftly hiding other male and female sexual parts.