56 (Patreon)

But very worth it.

I spent about eleven hours today scanning a few relevant corners of the internet (as I did with 6th gen sprites) for free-use Alola sprites that would save time and work... 

Out of 107 Pokemon and Formes that require new sprites, I've found suitable front sprites for 106 of them (the last one being Busted Mimikyu, which is an easy edit anyway), and suitable back sprites for 52. 

That means in total, there's only 56 sprites that need to be made from scratch... That's not bad. 

As a caveat, those 158 sprites that I did find will all, naturally, still need to be quality checked-- but that is a much simpler job than going from nothing.

I am not sure if I will do it right away or after the QC, but I intend to stream at least some of those from-scratch backsprites. 

As for how to do that privately for patrons... I'm still working on that, since Patreon itself doesn't provide any kind of a system like that as far as I can tell. Do I just give you a link to a stream from a different account than I usually use, or what? Does anyone who follows other creators have any insight as to how they handle those things?