Realistically-sized and -proportioned animal sprites?

[Carduus]

There are so many beautiful animal sprites out there for use, but one thing really, really grates on me: the limitation to one tile. People try to squish super-deformed chibi horses into one tile, and they end up looking like midget ponies. I'm currently working with MV, so I'm working with 48x48 tiles, and I was thinking approximately three feet/one meter per tile. People would be between 1.5 and 2 tiles high and one wide, a horse would be like 2.5 high by 3 long, an elephant would be 3-4 x 3-4, and a dragon 5 x 5 or more. Is there a desire for this in the community, because this is something I would really like. I'm still working out the details on eventing to have them take up so many blocks, but....seriously. Things should be proportional.  


Since I'm being vague: I would like as many standard European mammals/birds/reptiles of a size of one 48x48 pixel tile per square meter, as possible.