If you draw on or draw upon something such as your skill or experience, you make use of it in order to do something. He drew on his experience as a yachtsman to make a documentary program.

What does to draw upon mean?

draw on/upon something. ​to use a supply of something that is available to you.

How do you use draw upon in a sentence?

(1) He had no written records to draw upon. (2) We are trying to build machines that draw upon the highly successful designs used in biology. (3) A different vision of the company might draw upon the democratic ideal which inspires the relation of the citizen to the state.